Total need requires total help.
~ Karl Barth
Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond
Guidance, like all God’s acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God’s promise; this is how good he is.
~ James I. Packer, Knowing God, Hachette UK, 2011, p.212.
It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
~ Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
If I am in denial about my own weaknesses and sin, there will be a concomitant blindness to the greatness and glory of God.
~ Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
~ Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, writer/professor of bio-chemistry
They say that love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is.
~ Neil Strauss, 1969- , American writer
Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief.
~ Jane Leavy, 1951- , sports writer, biographer, author