Comments on: Healing Without Closure http://www.lainiepetersen.com/2008/07/12/healing-without-closure/ Writer, Priest, Tea-Lady Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:45:16 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Leah http://www.lainiepetersen.com/2008/07/12/healing-without-closure/comment-page-1/#comment-4227 Leah Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:01:23 +0000 http://www.lainiepetersen.com/?p=81#comment-4227 still, still, far too much pain--and I wonder about words like "closure" (as in financial transaction, maybe) and "resolution" (all the ingredients glomming together into a potion of indistinguishable ingredients). healing? health? wholeness? do those words convey what we're trying to achieve? thanks for this post. still, still, far too much pain–and I wonder about words like “closure” (as in financial transaction, maybe) and “resolution” (all the ingredients glomming together into a potion of indistinguishable ingredients). healing? health? wholeness? do those words convey what we’re trying to achieve? thanks for this post.

]]> By: Bryan Marabanian http://www.lainiepetersen.com/2008/07/12/healing-without-closure/comment-page-1/#comment-3903 Bryan Marabanian Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:03:19 +0000 http://www.lainiepetersen.com/?p=81#comment-3903 Emotional and spiritual wounds are always very painful. What we decide to do after we begin to experience the pain is what makes us truly remarkable (or unremarkable as the case may be). "Silver linings" can help make healing faster, I believe, but they don't provide a form of anasthesia. Do we really want anasthesia anyway? There's something to be said for the lessons we learn when we feel terrible emotional and spiritual pain. Not all of those lessons are negative. I look forward to reading the comments of others. Emotional and spiritual wounds are always very painful. What we decide to do after we begin to experience the pain is what makes us truly remarkable (or unremarkable as the case may be). “Silver linings” can help make healing faster, I believe, but they don’t provide a form of anasthesia.

Do we really want anasthesia anyway? There’s something to be said for the lessons we learn when we feel terrible emotional and spiritual pain. Not all of those lessons are negative.

I look forward to reading the comments of others.

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