As a therapist I will utilize the best of every modern resource available, that I'm confidently trained in, and can apply to client's situations. As a theologian I know of no better way to reframe the theodicy, and the victimization that occurs at the macro-level of community, and micro-level of individual trials than by translating the understanding of the power of the Cross. It defines and REFRAMES our trauma for infinite possibilities about personal identity (how we see ourselves) with transcendent outcomes. Only the sacred can do this, not the secular. See this: "...Jesus Christ, God's Son, has by his most holy touch consecrated and hallowed all sufferings, even death itself, has blessed the curse, and has glorified shame and enriched poverty so that death is now a door to life, the curse a fount of blessing, and shame the mother of glory. Suffering has been touched and bathed by Christ's pure and holy flesh and blood and thus have become holy, harmless, and wholesome, blessed, and full of joy for you. There is nothing, not even death, that his passion cannot sweeten." ~Martin Luther. The spiritual/transcendent IS the greatest resource--a relational Being (God), that has the power to change trauma into triumph and new possibilities.
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