Introduction
Let’s begin
with a simple prayer:
Father,
take me into my wound, into my brokenness—
deeper than I have ever been. I give You as
my Father, Christ as my Lord, the Spirit as
my Guardian and Guide, permission… access to
the deepest part of my soul and the deepest
hurts of my heart. Come and lead me into
the darkness by the Light of Your Love.
Come and shepherd this lost little girl
within me, this orphaned little boy within,
tenderly and lovingly. Let me be present in
this place— fully awake to my wounded heart
and fully aware of its phenomenal need.
Uncover my wounded soul, Father, and meet me
there. In Jesus’ name… Amen.
Body
I.
Consecration {surrender to
the Son of God}. In James 4:6-10 are found
seven steps; these are ‘seven steps of
spiritual recovery.’ The passage begins
with two principles: [1] God “gives a
greater grace [‘a super-abounding
grace,’ a grace abundant enough to
overwhelmingly meet every exigency of life;
why a ‘greater grace’? because we are in a
‘greater’ battle: Act III of the Divine
Drama— ‘Open Warfare,’ the raging of the
Battle]. Therefore {the Scripture} says,
‘God is opposed to the proud, but gives
grace to the humble.’” The second
principle is this: God makes war against
the arrogant man …which is a lit.
translation from the Greek. “Proud”
is from huperephanos. This was the
man or woman who despised everyone but
themselves, according to the ancient Greeks,
who looked down from their lofty perch with
contempt on everybody else. Reminds me of
the Pharisee in Luke 18:9 who “trusted
in” himself that he was “righteous,
and viewed” everyone else “with contempt.” The
“arrogant
person” spoken of here is the one who
builds an altar in his own soul where he
bows down before himself. They are, in
essence, their own god!
The first
step on the Journey of Faith is
‘submission.’ Understand it, embrace it,
the first step is always submission.
“Submit therefore to God,” James
say’s. Hupotasso u(pota/ssw is a
military word that means- ‘to take your
rightful place in rank;’ it was used in the
ancient world for arranging troop divisions
under the command of their leaders. James
is saying very simply, ‘place yourself under
divine authority.’ This is a total release
of your rights to Christ, an unconditional
surrender of any claim to your own
life. It is described in 1 Peter 3:15 as,
“putting Jesus Christ on the throne of your
life.” He is Kurios, Lord of your
Life, because God the HS made Him so the
moment we placed our faith in Him for
eternal life. But whether or not you and I
recognize His lordship and authority daily
and deservedly is up to us.
II.
Renunciation {of the vow
or vows}. Renunciation is imperative
because the only thing more tragic than the
abandonment or abuse is how we choose to
handle it. It’s the choices made or not
made, the person we become or refuse to
become, the life we live or don’t live.
To close
yourself off from love, to shut down your
heart as a defense from hurt, is to deny the
very thing you were made for: intimacy in
relationship. To demand perfection of
yourself, to look for perfect performance so
that no one will ever criticize you again,
is to lay an unbearable burden on your own
soul. That’s a weight you were never
intended to assume, never meant to carry.
We renounce the vow deliberately and out
loud— before the listening universe. The
vow is our agreement with the enemy’s lies,
with the Message of the arrows. It gives
the demonic realm a base of operations from
which to attack our lives, over and over and
over again. It is a sworn allegiance to
independence from others, and thus
independence from God.
Breaking the
vow is how we cancel all agreements; it’s
how you take back any ground you’ve given to
the enemy. It frees that part of the soul
for Christ to heal. You made it and
you must break it. A Prayer of
Renunciation:
Heavenly
Father, I renounce every vow I’ve made to
seal off my wounds and protect my self from
pain.
{Name them specifically if you can, and
renounce them} In the power and
authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, almighty
King of Kings, I break every last agreement
I have made with the lies of my own wounds,
the message of the arrows to my heart, the
deceptions of Satan, and I make my
agreements only with Jesus Christ my King
and with His holy Word. I give the
protection of my soul and spirit back to
you, Lord, and I trust you with all I am.
In Christ’ name… Amen.
III. Invitation. We invite
Jesus, the great Healer of the hearts of
men, into our wounds. Revelation 3:20a,
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock…;”
Weymouth’s 1912 translation of the NT reads,
“I am now standing at the door and am
knocking. If any one listens to My
voice and opens the door, I will go in to be
with him, and will feast with him and he
shall feast with Me.” We ask God to
come and meet us there, to enter into the
brokenness, the unhealed places of our
hearts and to make us whole. All our
healing and all our strength flows from our
union with the Person of Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 61:1 says, “The Spirit of the Lord
GOD is upon Me, because the LORD has
anointed Me to bring Good News to the
afflicted. He has sent Me to bind
up the brokenhearted, to proclaim
liberty to the captives, and the opening of
the prison to those who are bound; …to
comfort all who mourn; to grant those who
mourn in Zion— giving them a crown of beauty
instead of ashes, the oil of gladness
instead of mourning, the garment of praise
instead of a spirit of fainting; that they
may be called oaks of righteousness, the
planting of the LORD, that He may be
glorified,” 2c-3. This is not a bad
place to pray and to trust the Mission of
the Messiah.
Precious
Lord, Holy Father, I invite you into the
wounded place of my heart, give you
permission to enter every broken place,
every young, fearful, abandoned part of me.
Come now, dear Lord, and meet me there where
the arrow was administered. Bind up my
brokenness as you promised in Your Word,
heal my wounded heart and make it whole once
again. Release me, my King, from every
chain of captivity and every form of
bondage. Restore my heart, my soul, my mind
and my strength. Cause me to mourn, ‘O
Lord, and console me as I do. Grant my life
that noble crown of beauty instead of ashes,
anoint me by Your Spirit with the oil of
gladness in every grieving part, grant me a
garment of praise in place of a spirit of
despair. Come to me Father, come to me
Christ, come to me Holy Spirit, and surround
me with Your healing presence. Restore my
broken soul through perfect communion with
You. I ask this in Your Son’s precious and
powerful name… Amen.
IV. Grieving the Wound {means
acknowledging the hurt}. Letting the full
weight of it show up and saying, “It did
matter. It wounded me desperately. It hurt
me deeply, and now I give it over to God.”
You cannot over-estimate how important this
step is. So many of us have never,
ever allowed our heart to express its
loss, to let the pain go, to let the tears
come and to weep the way our wounds deserve.
Grieving is
the only honest thing to do with an arrow to
the heart. It is in grief that the Truth
comes forth: we were hurt by someone we
loved, we lost something precious to us {our
innocence, a possession, a friend, or the
Truth of who we really are}, we were beaten,
abandoned and betrayed, and it wounded us
immensely. Tears are healing;
they help to
open the wound back up and to cleanse it.
Grief, sorrow, the ‘dark night of the soul,’
is a legitimate form of validation. It says
the wound mattered, and this is how I
acknowledge it. A word to the wise: Let it
show up when it chooses to. Or better yet,
when the Holy Spirit chooses to reveal it,
not when it’s merely convenient for you.
V. Letting God Love Us
{which,
for many of us, is not nearly as easy as it
might sound}. Most people bury their
longing to be loved somewhere early on in
their Story. They do it out of hurt. But
to be loved is to be hurt …which is
precisely why loving and being loved is a
sign of great courage and strength. Jesus
Christ loved us right up to the moment of
His death, and now far beyond. “Before
the Feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing
that His hour had come to depart out of this
world to the Father, having loved His own
who were in the world, He loved them to the
end,” John 13:1. The most truly
masculine man in the history of the world is
also the most loving and most tender.
Abiding in
the love of God is our only hope, the only
Home our hearts will ever know. It is not
the same as a mental acknowledgement of
God’s love, or an intellectual assent to the
fact that God loves us {which is the final
fact of reality}. It is letting our hearts
come home to Him, and stay
right there, reside in His love and
acceptance. Would it disappoint you to know
that there’s no such thing as a formula for
this? Some of you are going to be
crestfallen because I don’t have a formula
to give you: three steps to spiritual
success, four steps to perfect healing, one
sure-fire method to absolute forgiveness of
all who have harmed or hurt you. I can’t
give that to you because [1] I don’t have
it; and [2] it doesn’t exist. What I do
have are a few thoughts to help you along
the way:
A. We can
start by not embracing a false lover, which
is anything we’ve used to comfort our hearts
and console ourselves, any of a multitude of
idols and anesthesias to numb our pain and
offer us a deceiving sense of validation.
My counsel is: let them go, turn loose of
them, {yes} even legitimate things, like
eating out at your favorite restaurant,
having a glass of wine at night, your
athletic achievements, the constant
communication with friends, your favorite TV
show {the one you can’t live
without}. For how long? Longer than you’re
comfortable with. Long enough to see
beneath the surface, long enough to let your
heart’s longing for love rise to the top.
B. We
choose to open our hearts to God, to lay
ourselves out before Him in ruthless
honesty. We become, in a word, vulnerable.
We make ourselves vulnerable to the “Father of mercies and God of all comfort,”
2 Corinthians 1:3b. Paul in Romans 12:1
says, “I challenge you, my friends and
brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer
yourselves unconditionally as a living
sacrifice, holy and acceptable to Him: your
soul’s worship and spirit’s service,”
{RR Expanded}.
C. We pray
along the lines of what the apostle Paul
knew was so necessary to the Church in
Ephesus— Ephesians 3:16-20.
Father of
Heaven above and Earth below, strengthen me
with your awesome might by your Spirit in my
innermost being, so that Christ may dwell
richly and intimately in my heart. ‘O let
me be fixed and founded in Love, so that I
may know the fullness of Christ’s love for
me— it’s height and depth, it’s length and
breadth. Let me be filled with an absolute
awareness of Your Love, though I may never
reason it out or completely comprehend it—
so that I may experience all the
Resurrection Life and power you have for me
in Him. Accomplish this within me, beyond
all I am able to ask or imagine. In Christ’
holy name… Amen.
D. We
accept and embrace that all of this
is true, the truest thing about us. The
Father of Jesus loves me just as I am and
not as I should be: not as He has created me
to be, not as His Spirit is shaping me to
be, but just as I am, right here,
right now, with all my faults, flaws,
failures and follies. We hold on to that
Truth in our hearts before we feel
anything. We accept it as fact, because it
is. God has loved me with an everlasting
love. Before I was even born He had his eye
on me {Jer. 31:3}; He chose me to be His son
{Eph. 1:4-5}; and He proved it beyond all
doubt by sending Christ to the Cross for me
and me alone {Rom. 5:8}.
E. Finally,
we stay with that truth, that singularly
spectacular truth {for more than three
minutes!}. We let it linger in our hearts
and minds for many days… no matter what else
happens, regardless of what occurs around
us, we let that be the centre of all we are
and all we long to be.
VI. Forgiveness {means choosing
to release those who hurt us}. It means
accepting that there is a God, and I’m not
Him. It means making a choice, a decision
of the will {just like those who hurt you
made a choice}, to leave all judgment and
justice in the hands of the Father, all
vengeance and retribution to the fair and
righteous God— Romans 12:19-21.
The time has
come to forgive our enemies, be that a
father, a mother, or the misguided souls of
those growing up around us— Luke 6:27-28 and
35. For what? Only you and God truly
know. Maybe for the wounds and the ways—
the ways they failed you, the wounds they
inflicted; for the words of a father or the
lack thereof. A lack of love, the lack of a
kind word or a tender touch, no bestowal of
identity or sense of importance whatsoever
{which is what a father is for}, is a major wound. They’re just much harder
to identify because they’re passive wounds,
rather than active. But they leave an
enormous void in the soul of a child; and
misguided children become misguided adults.
Forgiveness will be much more meaningful,
and ultimately much more powerful, if we get
down to some brutally honest specifics.
A quick, sweeping, generic, “Okay, I forgive
you, whoever you are, for whatever you did”
is not going to cut it. That, I can tell
you from experience, will not help at all.
A. First
things first, write down and remember
{especially with the ‘father-wound’} the
things your father did or said, or did not
do or say, that have hurt you: lock in to
those that came as a young boy or a little
girl. It doesn’t have to be exhaustive,
just collective: a gathering of major blows
against your young and tender heart.
B.
Forgiveness is an act of the will;
forgiveness is not a feeling. We
choose to forgive our father / mother /
unfaithful friend / spouse / abuser /
betrayer, etc., whether or not we feel
forgiving. Principle: The emotions will
settle as the anger subsides. And vice
versa.
Dr. Neil
Anderson has written about the damage done
to our own souls by unforgiveness, and he
offers this as a word of wisdom, “Don’t wait
to forgive until you feel like forgiving;
you will never get there. Feelings take
time to heal after the choice to forgive is
made.” A part of this process is allowing
God to stir up the pain of the past, for “if
your forgiveness doesn’t visit the emotional
core of your life, it will be incomplete.”
You can see the necessity of entering the
wound with God and grieving the loss you
find there. When you start consciously
choosing to relinquish your resentment, to
hand over to God the bitter poison of your
past, slowly but surely peace begins to
creep back in to long neglected regions of
the heart.
C.
Forgiveness is not saying, “It didn’t really
matter;” it is not saying,
“I deserved
much of it anyway.” Forgiveness says, “It
was wrong; it mattered, and I release
you from my debt.” Pastor and 19th
century poet George MacDonald wrote these
lines to his Lord:
With Thee
on board, each sailor is a king
Nor I
mere captain of my vessel then,
But heir
of Earth and Heaven, eternal child;
Daring
all Truth, nor fearing anything;
Mighty in
Love, the servant of all men;
Resenting nothing, taking rage and blare
Into the
godlike silence of a loving care.
I cannot
see, my God, a reason why
From morn
to night I go not gladsome, free;
For, if
Thou art what my soul thinketh Thee,
There is
no burden but should lightly lie,
No duty
but a joy at heart must be:
Love’s
perfect will can be not sore nor small,
For God
is Light— in Him no darkness is at all.
{Emphases mine.}
D. The NT
term “forgive” comes from a)fi/hmi (aphiemi)
meaning- cancel, pardon, remit. It was a word used in the
ancient world for the cancellation of a
debt, its complete absolution.
You can see it used in Matthew 18:27 and 32;
26:28; and 1 John 1:9.
A Prayer of Forgiveness:
Mighty God
and Merciful Father, I choose right here and
now to forgive my father / mother / husband
/ wife / children for all the pain, sorrow
and suffering he / she / they passed on to
me, for the wounds they inflicted on my
sheltered soul.
{It’s going to help immensely to be specific
here, to name the wounds and events: an
enemy unnamed is an enemy unfought.}
It
was wrong, evil, and sinful; it hurt my
heart and wounded me deeply, and I offer him
/ her / them pardon, because the sacrifice
of Your Son was the full and final payment
for all those sins. I release him from my
debt and I give him / her / them back to
you. I release the bitterness I’ve harbored
toward him / her / them, and I ask you to
come and cleanse these wounds, wash them
with the water of the Living Word, heal them
with His loving hands. In Jesus name I
pray. …Amen.
In Conclusion
VII. Hearing Our New Name. We
ask our God, who is the Author of
fatherhood, to father us… and to tell us our
new name, to reveal our eternal identity.
You must go to God and ask Him what He
thinks of you, what He sees in you; and you
must stay with that question until you get
an answer. This is where perseverance in
prayer pays off!
A. God
speaks to us, first and foremost, through
His written Word. The Word is the
rock-solid ‘something’ we needed to build
our lives on. Every other ounce of wisdom,
guidance, divine direction or spiritual
intuition that comes our way must be
examined under the Light of Scripture. Take
a look at what God has already said to you
and I:
Ø You are my
son, my daughter, eternally— 1 John 3:1.
Ø You are
fully forgiven and completely cleansed
{purified perfectly}— 1 John 1:9.
Ø Your
sin-nature has been defeated and your heart
circumcised unto God— Romans 2:28-29, 6:11;
Colossians 2:11-12.
Ø
The Lord
Jesus Christ is now your Life {spiritually,
eternally, and abundantly}— John 10:10,
14:6; Galatians 2:20.
Ø You have a
new nature {an eternal identity}— Ephesians
2:4-6— and a new name— Isaiah 62:2;
Revelation 2:17.
B. We know
He speaks through His Spirit to our spirit.
How do we know this? Because Paul said “the
Spirit Himself bears witness
with our spirit that we are children of
God,” and not just children {though that
alone is an amazing thought}, but “heirs
of God, and fellow heirs with Christ,”
Romans 8:16-17. The Spirit of Truth
testifies to our son-ship. You think about
it, just imagine for a moment, it could have
been anything else in all of
Scripture, any morsel of Truth in the entire
universe, yet He states this singularly
astounding revelation: that we belong to the
Father of Heaven and Earth, we have
relationship with the King of all Creation
…and His heart toward each of us is Love—
John 3:16-17, 35-36. As it says in The
Message, “God’s Spirit touches our
spirits and confirms who we really are. We
know who He is, and we know who we are:
Father and children.” Do you know what
we’ve been given here? Identity,
belonging, something our souls crave,
something our hearts cannot live without.
The Spirit
tells us we are the sons and daughters of
the Most High God, a God full of mercy and
majesty. That is magnificent, and
meaningful, far beyond the consolation and
comfort of eternal security. This how
within our hearts, within the centre of our
souls, arrogance is melted away, unbelief is
transformed into faith, and idolatry is
replaced with worship of the Lord of Glory,
Jesus Christ. As William Hendriksen once
said, “When grace changes the heart,
submission out of fear changes to submission
out of love, and true humility is born.”
The restoration of the human heart, with
all its barriers to honesty and openness,
all its brokenness and pain, comes as we
take on the heart of the Father, as we make
it our own. We embrace it, believe it, and
trust it as the ultimate truth. “You are
loved without condition, now
and forevermore. You always have been and
you always will be. That promise is signed
in the blood of My Son”— Abba.
C. We know
that God can speak through the Body of
believers. Men and women who know you well,
who’ve listened to your Story {and caught a
glimpse of your glory} can help you
recognize your new name, find your place in
the line of Battle, or confirm your eternal
identity in Christ. Their words are an
offering of assurance that everything God
has spoken to me, in whatever way I received
it, is in fact true. If you look over the
length of your life, you’ll notice how He
uses other people as channels through which
He can pour His grace out upon us.
D. Our
heavenly Father often reveals His heart
toward us in extremely intimate ways, ways
that are utterly unique: a song, a movie, an
experience in life. Instruction,
initiation, intimacy: that’s the
game-plan, that’s the goal. When Christ
said in John 10:27, “My sheep hear My
voice, and I know them, and they follow Me,”
He meant it. The “Father” of Christ
uses songs, Scriptures, cinema and
circumstances to speak strength into our
hearts, courage into our crises.
E. There is
another source to knowing your true name in
the Cause of Christ. The wounds of life
in a world at war. Those arrows of
accusation were not aimless; they had
direction, purpose, intent, to shut you down
and to take you out.
Directly or
indirectly, either one, the enemy had a hand
in ‘arranging our wounds.’ Yes, by the
‘enemy’ I mean Satan and the demonic realm.
The evil one arranged for most of your
wounds, but he put his spin on all of
them.
So, the
question is this: What have the wounds
prevented you from doing? What have the
hurts hindered you from trying? What have
the pains of the past kept you from becoming
in life? This is a critical clue to who you
were destined and designed to be, to the
life you were meant to live and the person
you were meant to become. Here’s something
that might help you. The false self we
frequently speak of, the poser and imposter,
is not entirely false. It is false in the
sense that it’s not the full you, it’s not a
complete picture of who you are or long to
be. It’s a fragment of the whole, a piece
of the puzzle. What we do is find a talent,
something at which we’re practiced and
polished, an ability, a gift we possess {be
it natural or spiritual}, and we live out of
that while hiding most of the rest.
Let me
amplify this a bit. The false self is ‘the
poser,’ and the poser is the imposter; these
are synonymous terms for the same syndrome
of sin, or the same sindrome, if you
like. The question is: Do you want to be a
real woman or a replica? Do you want to
offer as a man genuine strength to those
around you, or merely more lies, more
falsehoods and fabrications?
One famous
author wrote, “The imposter is cunning,
baffling, and powerful. He is insidious.
The imposter demands to be noticed. His
craving for compliments energizes his futile
quest for carnal satisfaction. His bandages
are his identity” because “appearances
are everything. ‘Every one of us is
shadowed by an illusory person: a false
self,’ Thomas Merton observed. He went on
to explain:
‘This is the
man I want myself to be but who cannot
exist, because God does not know anything
about him. And to be unknown of God is
altogether too much privacy. My false and
private self is the one who wants to exist
outside the reach of God’s will and God’s
love— outside of reality and outside of
life. And such a self cannot help but be an
illusion. We are not very good at
recognizing illusions, least of all the ones
we cherish about ourselves— the ones …which
feed the roots of sin. For most people in
the world, there is no greater subjective
reality than this false self of theirs,
which cannot exist. A life devoted to the
cult of this shadow is what is called a life
of sin.’
Notice how
Merton’s notion of sin focuses not primarily
on individual acts but on a fundamental
option for a life of pretense. ‘There can
only be two basic loves,’ wrote Augustine,
‘the love of God unto the forgetfulness of
self, or the love of self unto the
forgetfulness and denial of God.’ This
underlying issue arises from the core of our
being and incarnates itself in the specific
choices of our daily existence— either for
the shadow self ruled by egocentric desire
or for the true self “hidden with Christ
in God.” Manning, Abba’s Child,
pp. 32-34
Remember,
with the wounds came some deep lies, sentences sent to define and
destroy you. No matter how true they might
feel, your Father says they are false.
Every one of them. “You are not alone; you
are not a failure or a fool; you have
protection and provision and the promise of
Love and Life eternal. You don’t have to
live in fear any longer, in anxiety ever
again; I am your God. And you can
trust Me.” Your name and identity in the
Savior are going to collide head-on with the
Lies that were spoken into your soul.
Remember that. So, which are you going to
believe? Or better yet, who are you going
to believe:
the Father
of Love or “the father of lies,” John
8:44f?
A Prayer for Eternal Perspective:
Father, who
am I to you? Who am I in Your Son? You are
my true and final Father— my Creator and
Redeemer, the Author of my Story, the
Sustainer of my soul and Restorer of my
life. You know the man You had in mind, the
woman You had at heart, when you brought me
into being. You know my true name, my
eternal identity. Father of counsel and
courage, I ask You to speak to me, to reveal
my inner strength, inner glory, inner
beauty, my new name in all its fullness.
Open my eyes to see Your hand, open my ears
to hear Your voice. My Father and my God I
ask that you speak it into my life not just
once, but again and again that I might
receive it fully in the depths of my soul.
Grant me the courage to receive what Your
Spirit says and the faith to believe it and,
therefore,
to live it.
In Christ’ mighty name. …Amen.
The Battle
for this strategic spot of ground in your
soul is about to intensify… dramatically.
The accuser of the children of God is not
going to take this lying down; it’s the last
thing he wants you to know: who you truly
are in the eyes of your Creator, who you
were destined to be in the mind of your
Maker. Because this kind of knowledge, when
bought and believed, is deadly to his cause
and the evil he ensures. This is where your
warrior-spirit is put to the test, man and
woman alike, your courage cemented in the
crucible of conflict. Right here you need
to [1] reject every accusation from
the enemy, [2] make no agreement with
those old lies that were broken, and [3] fight off all discouragement and
despair, the terrible thought that, “I
really am a nobody, even to God. God will
never reveal my new name, my personal place,
my eternal identity, because there’s not one
for me.” Those are evil insinuations from
the mouth of the deceiver. Do not listen to
them!
Here is the
hardest part of hearing the name your God
has given you and gaining a sense of your
divine destiny: accepting it in faith and
embracing it as final. We live by the
cultural critique, “If it sounds too good to
be true, it probably is,” and what I’m
saying is, “If it sounds too good to be
true, it’s because you and I have woefully
underestimated the glory and splendor of
grace.” Or do you think you can out-dream
the Almighty, out-give the Gracious Giver,
or out-love the greatest Lover? Yeah, me
neither. It’s time to let our hearts rest
in the reality that whatever you think you
know about God, or whatever you have
experienced of God, there is always more.
God is always greater than whatever part of
Him we have or piece of His plan we
presently possess. Always. What
that’s saying to us is stretch, man,
stretch! Stretch, woman!, stretch your mind
and heart to accommodate the fulness of the
Father’s love. For He is a God of infinite
tenderness, and His heart is set on you.
A Prayer
in Closing:
My Father
and my God, thank you for beginning this
great work within my heart. Take me deeper,
Lord, deeper into Your healing, deeper into
Your strength, deeper into my true name, and
deeper into my destiny. Seal this work in
my soul with Your Son’s life, with the
sacrifice of my Savior, and let not one
ounce of it be stolen from me by the father
of liars and thieves. Carry me on to the
presence of Christ. I pray in His Name.
…Amen.
v
The overall
theme of this teaching, including the
prayers, was adapted from ch. 7 of the Wild
at Heart Field Manual, ‘Healing the
Wound,’ then rewritten.
