A Healing Strategy for Pain and Trauma Genesis 49:29-50:26 “Pain insists on being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” C.S. Lewis “From the brain’s perspective, trauma happens anytime we suffer alone. Suffering turns into trauma when we are unable to process our suffering with God and other people.” Jim Wilder Refuse to allow pain to create a foothold of bitterness. 2. Refuse to allow pain to cause you to seek revenge. 3. Refuse to allow pain to blind you towards God’s overall purposes. “Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.” Viktor Frankl “Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Viktor Frankl 4. Refuse to allow pain to prevent you from exchanging evil for good. 5. Refuse to allow pain to destroy your belief in God’s promises. "For those who love God, nothing irredeemable can happen to you." Dallas Willard