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The concept of the sacred is fuzzy in this profane world in which we live. Most people think of priests in robes intoning lengthy Latin phrases or perhaps a cathedral comes to mind
If we are the temple of the Holy Spirit, the home of the Prince of Peace Himself, why then do we find our own selves so intolerable? But just as a cluttered home with dishes in the sink and laundry mountains in the hall make us depressed, so too our cluttered temples bring us down. But if we are home to the Holy Spirit, we have a helper who will cleanse our temples alongside us. Because if we are home to the Holy Spirit, we can be home to ourselves.
During a conversation about the trauma bond with my oldest, she challenged me to write a post that dealt honestly with the difficult journey my four daughters and I took from years of abuse to a healthy and loving blended family unit. The original trauma bond belonged to me and my ex-husband. The result of the cycles of abuse that revolve around reward and punishment, the trauma bond has the same psychological effect as a trap has on the leg of a wild animal. And having established a firm trauma bond with my ex who suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder, I successfully passed the fear, the unfounded hopes, and the acceptance of drama as normal to my daughters.
Humility is a hard sell these days. Actually, it’s never been on anyone’s top ten list of fun character traits to develop