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A restless night followed yesterdays blog post "Its too hard", and brought to mind a song I heard long ago. The song never made much of a musical impression on me, but the story that went with it did (video below). Ginny Owens is blind. She went blind as a child, and got all the life-long challenges which I can't really understand. But so have many people: I know someone who lives with persistent pain, an older friend who is going blind at the age of 60, one who lost his business (a life's investment), one trapped in psychotic schizophrenia, one rejected by parents, one lost in recreational sex, one seeking a husband, one ... Two thoughts from Ginny's story:
Are we strong enough to deal with trials alone? No. We need each other, but these "each other" are also broken people. So most of all I need God. Some will cry "delusion", "science has disproved God" (looking at you, Dawkins!). But if you have no relationship with God, what else could you say? Its only your opinion. For example, you don't know my spouse either, try telling me I'm deluded about that! I know what I know, because I know what I experience. I'm rational (I'm a scientist), I know facts, I know evidence, I know God, and I'm feeling a bit agro about it (sorry)!
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Probably the best therapy is to express yourself. Why do you think psychiatrists make you lie on the couch and talk, while all they do is murmur "hmmm", "uhuh", or "go on"? Archives
May 2017
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