Trauma brings silence because it feels like there are no words to really describe what happened. Many times people need us to sit with them in silence. It is a way of joining with them so they are not alone in their experience of struggling to find words.
For the record, it stands to say that if each friend says to the other, "I will treat my selfishness as the main problem in this relationship," you also have the prospect for great things.
Bob Dylan said, "Ya gotta serve somebody." Translation: No one is really free. You have to live for something and whatever is the meaning of your life is the Lord of your Life.
“Christ’s obedience is yours. His grace is yours. His life is yours. And now his Spirit will be yours.” The wonder and mystery of God’s Grace is beyond human understanding https://t.co/apx7roXr10
When the mourner tells you what they feel and think - you do not teach. You listen; you bear witness; you reassure because you understand the nature of grief.
Learn how to sit and be quiet with one who is suffering. When we don’t know what to say, it is usually best to say nothing rather than allow our discomfort with silence and pain to drive us to rattle off an answer.
The Bible’s teaching is that the road to the best things is not through the good things but usually through the hard things. It is only through death we get to resurrection. We must lose ourselves to find ourselves. #Easter