Meditations on "Denial"

Covering up traumatic events with painkillers does not make them go away.  In fact, as so many of us can testify, the memories, whether we are consciously aware of them or not, cause fear and shame to grow and become like mountains that block and confuse our thinking and affect our behaviour.  God invites us to bring the trauma we have suffered and its impact on us to Him for comfort and healing.

Recovery is a process where, with God and trusted caring people, we begin to come alive …and start dealing with our darkest secrets.

A renewed conscience clearly indicates what is morally right and good and gives warning when we are straying into wrongdoing.

We ask for help in order to get rid of anything that keeps us from living in the dignity of who God says we are.

Our neighbours shouldn’t suffer because all our love is centered on ourselves

To live well in relationship with God and others, we need to fill up on what our Creator intended, not on what we determine might work

We will need to persevere as we work to do things God’s way in all our affairs.

To grow and mature and do well in any area of life requires commitment

Lying contaminates and destroys relationships and so life in God’s world is based on His spiritual sanitation system of telling the truth.

God made us with a conscience where guilt reveals to us our wrongdoing.

Accusation and condemnation will not glorify Christ. Carrying one another’s burdens will

When we live behind a mask, we are denying our true self and rejecting the person God created us to be.