A thought by Craig Groeschel, from his book, The Christian Atheist: When You Believe in God But Live as if He Doesn’t Exist (p. 54). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) We are now in the January, the first month of a new year but many people are still living last year or even farther back years. They had done something in their past and the shame of it is still being lived and it is affecting them in this new year. Maybe that is you or maybe someone you know. Craig earlier says, “Shame usually follows a pattern— a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are— not just something we’ve done, or had done to us— and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover— that, in fact, we don’t even deserve to.” As Craig says, “For many,
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