Sublime

God is the hero of the story.

It takes real trust in God to enter into chaos and create peace.

where a man’s wound is, that is where his genius will be. Wherever the wound appears in our psyches, whether from alcoholic father, shaming mother, shaming father, abusing mother, whether it stems from isolation, disability, or disease, that is precisely the place for which we will give our major gift to the community.

Traumatized human beings recover in the context of relationships: with families, loved ones, AA meetings, veterans’ organizations, religious communities, or professional therapists.

When leaders are afraid and don’t trust God, followers won’t either.

Discipline is the act of any loving Father whose child is walking in rebellion.

By their questions and their attention, their careful probing and investigative stealth, the therapist tries – harder than anyone may yet have done – to discover how our presenting problem might be related to the rest of our existence and, in particular, to the turmoils of childhood. Over many sessions, a succession of small discoveries contributes

our God is a God of detail.

In Hebrew, this book is called In the Wilderness.