For we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. (2 Corinthians 1: 8–9).
I'll spare you guys the TMI of all the information I feel so unprepared to process throughout the week as I sit with clients for the next 5 days. It's obvious to me Paul wrote the former in a place of great distress, hoping to increase his faith by speaking life over himself and the ones he was writing to. I'm getting a strange comfort being in association with Paul, knowing he didn't sugar coat his life or sufferings. I often come to social media to escape, or numb in some ways—- in other ways it is an outlet for me, to focus on positive things. I have been a force of negativity for a long time, and I think it has kept me from connecting with people. I still find social situations with my peers terrifying because I hate small talk, but I also don't want to scare people away. But Paul reminds me that the next five days, and the last five days, and everything else that has or will happened was so that I might not rely on myself, but on God... who brings things that were once dead back to life again.
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Hopeful Melancholy
Não ficçãoTales and tips to help you cope from someone's psychotherapist. I am a 28 year old mental health therapist who works with children and families. This will be a compilation of thoughts about various aspects of life. I hope it helps.
