and i think there’s a big difference between acknowledging what happened like you can acknowledge the fact of it there’s a huge difference between acknowledging and accepting that’s right so accepting is going to come much later and on in our mile markers so we acknowledge that this loss this shock the numbness maybe even the denial we acknowledge the event but we’re sort of in denial like i can’t i can’t believe this is happening i can’t i can’t feel all this emotion and so if you could by the way it would be
overwhelming if it could you know paul talked about it for sure he’d go into the third heaven it’s like there’s a sense of going i just soon peace out and get out of here but god wants me to stay here there’s a sense if i could be oh you know we in human growth and development anybody knows this has studied even a psych 101 course in college is piaget and erickson and others who did this in kohlberg there are these stages of growth and development that every human on any continent goes through and so the stages of grief that these mirror so
much like from elizabeth kubler-ross and others have done work they mirror this because if i could be fully immersed and i’m not talking about baptism doctor but if fully immersed in this it would be overwhelming and i don’t know that i could sustain living so there is these stages that are really we’ve named what god invented in these stages of trauma stages of grief but if i could fully get it that on that day i think it would be i would be overwhelmed yeah in other words we experience the fact of what happened but it’s actually
part of god’s mercy that the impact leaks into our life over time because if the full impact of trauma would have hit us all at once it may have killed us or overwhelmed us to the point where we couldn’t be resilient and come back let’s connect this to the reality of jesus on the cross why is it though what happens to christ on the cross is so epic of epic proportions that have the um ability to to wipe out sin and death as strongholds over our life because jesus does on the cross would you and i in our human
