THE ZIG OF HURT, THE ZAG OF FORGIVENESS ~ 6
The first example in Sacred Scripture of how poisoned thinking morphs into out-of-control emotions of jealousy, anger, hatred and explodes into hurting, through lashing out verbally, physically – or simply choosing the punitive option of distance and silence – towards the one[s] who have directly, often indirectly because we have imagined it to be so – hurt us, is that of Cain and Abel. [Gn.4:1-18] When we cling obsessively to actual or perceived hurt inflicted upon us by another/others, sometimes even God becomes the target of our blaming hurt. There is within most people a seeking, aided, and abetted by satan, to find any means to cauterize the pain. Cain’s choice was to murder his brother. There is a holier alternative to punitive action against those who hurt us: asking for and embracing the healing grace of Christ. Without such healing we will never be complete as a person. Without such healing we will both remain prisoners in the darkness