To Overcome: Remember
How do you truly overcome adversity, trauma, or grief? I may not have all the answers, but I have been on this road for a long time. I am a survivor of abuse, neglect and abandonment. I have realized many different parts of this journey. I have written down in my journal a few elements that I think of when I think of getting through it. I plan to write blogs on each of these as time allows. My whole life, I have felt this desire and push to forget the things that happened to me. I thought that was the good Christian thing to do because forgetting would be moving on from what happened. God wants us to move forward with him. There have been times when I have wanted to forget huge parts of my life: what happened to me and certain people I have grieved over. I realize that forgetting is not really about moving on from the things that hurt, but rather it is about not doing the uncomfortable work of addressing it and using what happened in a way t...