Everyone have the right to claim to go through an extraordinary normal suffering, a pain that has no name or don’t know how to describe it. Imagine someone suffering from acute loneliness but not depression, a sort of spiritual experience. You have then all sorts of feelings; feelings of hollow vagueness, of emptiness or feelings of unreachable or incommunicable (may be to someone you love or cared for) or dissociated self from the other, all of these can be terribly exhausting, devastating and nerve cracking. This can happen and must happen to everyone positively (can be also negatively).
Let us say that such state of being that can create or lead to such an excruciating emotional crackdown can be one like, when you know and share the truth of another person’s secret, when protecting such a secret, when helping someone to conceal a factual reality to protect a greater cause, etc. one can experience such pain. This is true more so outside confessional or professional secret.
As we walk the Holy Week, I like to imagine Jesus going through sort of emotional crackdown as he drew nearer to his final countdown. ‘If it is possible, have this cup away from me’ or ‘why have you forsaken me’ are expressions filled with untold truths. Definitely, an expression of exhausted strength but not of hopelessness, of fullness of intimacy and not abandonment.
We got to ask for a bit of such experiences. They are there everywhere in everyday life. Then, we’ll have ample opportunity to challenge God or find Him on our side.
Let us say that such state of being that can create or lead to such an excruciating emotional crackdown can be one like, when you know and share the truth of another person’s secret, when protecting such a secret, when helping someone to conceal a factual reality to protect a greater cause, etc. one can experience such pain. This is true more so outside confessional or professional secret.
As we walk the Holy Week, I like to imagine Jesus going through sort of emotional crackdown as he drew nearer to his final countdown. ‘If it is possible, have this cup away from me’ or ‘why have you forsaken me’ are expressions filled with untold truths. Definitely, an expression of exhausted strength but not of hopelessness, of fullness of intimacy and not abandonment.
We got to ask for a bit of such experiences. They are there everywhere in everyday life. Then, we’ll have ample opportunity to challenge God or find Him on our side.
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