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God was doing business in me recently when I had to realise something well beyond my control. In 400-words I cannot satisfy all His truth; I can only hit one angle.
Most books cannot cover all the
territory the author would want to cover.
The concern came in how I lead others
in understanding how acceptance comes through the process of grief. Within a
few weeks I wrote two articles[1]
that could seem to contradict each other. God made me aware of this having
written the second one — He gave it to me to wrestle.
Having wrestled, the key issue is
they both, individually, reflect different truth — two different persons’
truth. In this case, as far as recovery from grief is concerned, two people’s
responses are polar different. The first one experiences no immediate recovery
to acceptance, and suffers for a decade or longer, grieving at times traumatically.
The other has the opposite experience: tragically loses a child, yet, having
grieved for a time, has an epiphany that reduces all the sorrow to meaning. It
seems for the one, that God hasn’t stepped in, yet for the other He has. I do
not think in such terms, though.
Both responses to grief are equally
valid because they’re both real case scenarios lived out by real people.
The conflict I experience in
writing what God lays on my heart is the torment at times that I’m leading
people wrongly. In writing about one perspective of truth, people are bound to
read these words in the absolute sense — like the truth I write is the only
truth. It is truth, just not all the truth; just one sliver of truth within
myriads.
I don’t know how many times I’ve
seriously considered giving up writing, and the many times I’m made such an
attempt. But either God goaded me back or other people did. I certainly cannot
stop. The Lord speaks too much to be ignored. He has chosen this medium for me.
(Like it’s taken only 19 minutes to write this… and still He’s speaking…)
This article is an attempt to reconcile how I feel about the possibility
that I may have betrayed the reader.
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