Colorado Counseling and Jay Brandenburg Nau
Such a strange feeling. Freedom. The freedom to choose. The ability to enjoy life. The option. Options have always felt like a game of Russian roulette. A choice that could prove fatal. The choices I made always felt like they came with a great price. I spent the weekend on the river. Such a healing
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Oh where do we begin? The rubble or our sins? I write this morning from a mixed place. From a reality rooted in past failure and regret and a present place where God continues to hold me, guid and lead me. As I LOOK BACKWARD AND PROCESS THE STORY I FIND MYSELF IN I SEE
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Grace comes in many forms, sometimes it shows up in a smile, or the man in my office holding the elevator door. Sometimes it comes after a deep confession of hard things long held and embodied… The hard stuff we carry for so long that it becomes a part of us… Where we are wounded,
Stillness, silence, contemplation…. So much of my life has been lived in survival mode… Anticipating the next crisis, bill, struggle, or conflict… A brain always on, always thinking twelve steps ahead… This is what trauma produces. It creates all or nothing scenarios that keep the body activated or shut down. For me it leads to
The idea that Christ himself, the God of all creation, the king of kings takes up residency in me, a sinner… The God of Angle armies chooses to live in me… Such a hard thing to wrap my mind around as I work through my day to day. The day to day seems chaotic, out
Life can be hard! Hard is ok… it means that we are alive. Easy is a dream… it’s a way that is not real. Easy means we don’t have to be present. Easy means we are safe and held… the question is “what holds us?” I have felt the pain of loss, the reality that