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Attachment & God (pt3)
If there are clinical methods to restore attachment within yourself and with others, then you better believe God’s got his own powerful system for repair-enting you into a total restoration of your attachment to Him—union with Christ.
Attachment & God (pt 2)
You can rest assured that Christ suffered the deepest agony of existence so that you could experience the most abundant joy a human can know—your Creator’s loving acceptance, connection, and presence. His love made attachment to God a one-step process that’s renewable moment by moment.
Attachment and God (part 1)
After turning toward the Father with his emotional pain and brokenness, David experiences union with Him (attachment), and he regains his composure. He finds comfort like a little baby who has fallen asleep in his mother’s arms.
Kids and Pain
Emotionally anchoring the little ones with our soothing voices, gentle touches, and safe presence gives them a sense that we caregivers can tolerate and be with them in their distress, setting them up to trust us for an emotionally supported and connected adolescence.
Identity Cancelled
For many of these kids, this most recent turn in the shutting down of schools, gyms, and extracurriculars has also shut down what helps to define them.
And what defines us aligns us.
Kids, Soul Care & Covid-19
The goal isn’t perfectly attached and attuned parenting; it’s simply to adjust a few things so that you can be more present throughout the day and in new ways.
Anchoring with Prayer
We will not navigate these times well without learning to pray. As summer ends and the fall hits, things will get harder and not easier.
No Guarantees
What lies before me is the undeniable contrast I have now experienced as a result of the pandemic. Contrasts related to time and its lack of guarantees.
Searching for God
Where is God? Where are the anchors? In my own process I am finding the only pathway to God in all of this is to sit with the heaviness and grief, cry through the overwhelm, and journal every thought, doubt, and fear.