Trauma needs witness – lessons from a frazzled cat
How a frazzled cat crash-landing into a treetop helped me see that trauma needs witness. How God reminded me: He does that for us.
How a frazzled cat crash-landing into a treetop helped me see that trauma needs witness. How God reminded me: He does that for us.
For 50 years I didn’t know: My dream at age 3 profoundly explained and influenced the trauma in my life. Then, I began awakening to the key I’d held all along.
It’s agonizing to be bullied – and it can happen to an adult, in the church. People eager to control, plot to sabotage, coerce, shame.
God wants to lift from our shoulders staggering burdens that generations have needlessly carried. He wants to show us the way to send away the past that binds.
In a very real way, I was there when my great-great-grandfather Lorenzo Whitaker survived the Civil War, and more specifically, the Battle of Gettysburg.
"Come and rest here. Come and lay your burdens down."