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Eagle Born to Fly: Finding Life Beyond
Depression by Sharon C. Matthies
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Part 3 - Getting Out of There
Rising on the Winds of Mercy
Live and let live. It took me so long to get there. It took me over
30 years to find my own life and allow myself to just live it at
my own pace and not be totally defined by the expectations and convictions
of others. It took years of getting stuck down mucky back roads
to finally expose what I call my own religious judgmentalism. After
much reflection and pondering, I have to wonder now if it’s
our hidden woundedness that compels us to build such righteously
high walls around ourselves.
Do we somehow feel safer within those dogmatically defined parameters?
We know that physical wounds force us to mend, crutch and compensate
ourselves around the pain. We mask our oozing wounds and hide broken
bones behind bandages, slings and casts – whatever it takes
to ease the pain and discomfort, and whatever it takes to help us
function around the frustrating limitations of that wound.
I believe we do the same with our soul wounds. I think that we
hide those wounds behind bandages of behaviours and slings of dogma.
We crutch ourselves with drugs, comfort foods, or alcohol, whatever
will ease the pain that haunts us from deep within, whatever it
takes to help us function around the frustrating limitations of
that woundedness. We cushion ourselves against the hurt with inner
dialogues that often lie to us about the "why" of the
wounding. Often, (like I did for so much of my young adult life),
we ignore and bury those wounds so deep inside of us that we’re
totally unaware that we’re even walking wounded.
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