A thought by Henry Cloud, from his book, Changes That Heal ( p. 50). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) I’m sure glad about that, aren’t you? Henry says, “Because time is experience, we can influence any ‘past’ aspect of ourselves in the present. In the present, we can reach the hurting, lonely child of our past. The lonely child, the hurting child, the untrained child, and whoever else we ‘were’ is still alive; he or she is eternal and lives within us. “Look at how you react to different situations. You respond to some situations like a rejected or hurt child. Often this child has not been reached by God’s grace and truth because he or she is outside of time. He or she is not brought into experience and is not allowed to grow up. People will tell someone to ‘stop acting like a child,’ truth without grace, but never give that person what he or she needs.” He goes on, “When God says that he can redeem the ti
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