Just saw the posting of an epic failing conference for pastors who love to fail successfully. Well not exactly. Fear of failure often has us all stay in our caves or cocoons. We die there instead of breaking new ground. this is breaking new ground idea that I applaud. Way to go! I look forward to going.
I have been in a deep depression for 18 months following the sudden deaths of my brother (62) and co-visionary in IFS and Christian Truth (52). I felt a total failure for these 18 months and 4 weeks ago through a series of 7 things in seven days God helped me to see in the darkness of my depression the light. I did not have to step out of the darkness just notice that while I felt alone and abandoned I was neither alone or abandoned. He was in the darkness with me. Ex 20:21. I am renewed, restored, re-energized, and re-visited. I have a story to tell. the story is of God being present with me always even the most when known the least. The Footsteps Story is changed for me. There are times that God carries us through things (old version). There are times when it is our footprints in the sand and we see that He is in us having never left us or forsaken us even in the darkness. I learned and am learning.
About Me
- Don Paine
- I am a pastor and a clinical psychotherapist. My life's passion is defining healthiness from a human perspective and paralleling it to the holiness of God, divine perspective. Shifting perspectives creates a paradigm that is alongside of rather than over and against. The parakalein of God and the paradoxes of humanity are redefined. Humanity is all about winning and yet we are losing ground everywhere. Divinity is all about letting go of the desire to win and the fear of loss. The Divine embraces the world with loving care regardless of anything.
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