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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 624081" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>Ah, this is each one of us, right here on this site. I am so thankful for each person here, who has walked this walk, and who comes back to share their pain so that we might give, and then we share our own pain and others can give to us. We have to work on ourselves first, before we can truly help anybody else. And then we have to define what help really is. Great post this morning from Rohr. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Wounded Healers</p><p>Friday, April 11, 2014</p><p></p><p>Only people who have suffered in some way can save one another—exactly as the Twelve-Step Program also discovered. Deep communion and dear compassion is formed much more by shared pain than by shared pleasure. I do not know why that is true.</p><p></p><p>“Peter, you must be ground like wheat, and once you have recovered, then you can turn and help the brothers” (Luke 22:31-32), Jesus says to Peter. Was this his real ordination to ministry? No other is ever mentioned. I do believe this is the ordination that really matters and that transforms the world. Properly ordained priests might help bread and wine to know what they truly are, but truly ordained priests are the “recovered” ones who can then “help” people to know who they are too. We have been more preoccupied with changing bread than with changing people, it seems to me.</p><p></p><p>In general, you can lead people on the spiritual journey as far as you yourself have gone. You can’t talk about it or model the path beyond that. That’s why the best thing you can keep doing for people is to stay on the journey yourself. Transformed people transform people. And when you can be healed yourself and not just talk about healing, you are, as Henri Nouwen so well said, a “wounded healer.” Which is the only kind of healer!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 624081, member: 17542"] Ah, this is each one of us, right here on this site. I am so thankful for each person here, who has walked this walk, and who comes back to share their pain so that we might give, and then we share our own pain and others can give to us. We have to work on ourselves first, before we can truly help anybody else. And then we have to define what help really is. Great post this morning from Rohr. Wounded Healers Friday, April 11, 2014 Only people who have suffered in some way can save one another—exactly as the Twelve-Step Program also discovered. Deep communion and dear compassion is formed much more by shared pain than by shared pleasure. I do not know why that is true. “Peter, you must be ground like wheat, and once you have recovered, then you can turn and help the brothers” (Luke 22:31-32), Jesus says to Peter. Was this his real ordination to ministry? No other is ever mentioned. I do believe this is the ordination that really matters and that transforms the world. Properly ordained priests might help bread and wine to know what they truly are, but truly ordained priests are the “recovered” ones who can then “help” people to know who they are too. We have been more preoccupied with changing bread than with changing people, it seems to me. In general, you can lead people on the spiritual journey as far as you yourself have gone. You can’t talk about it or model the path beyond that. That’s why the best thing you can keep doing for people is to stay on the journey yourself. Transformed people transform people. And when you can be healed yourself and not just talk about healing, you are, as Henri Nouwen so well said, a “wounded healer.” Which is the only kind of healer! [/QUOTE]
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