The great R&B prophet Mary J. Blige said no more drama in her life, but you will always have drama when you have not dealt with the trauma that causes the drama. Trauma can make a nice person mean, a present father absent, a man of God a dwelling place for the devil. Personality shifts. PTSD. The crazy thing is the stuff that we have been through sticks to us and continues to weigh us down until it is so heavy that we are stopped in our tracks trying to figure out how to move on. The trauma effects so many aspects of our lives. You don't know how to treat a good man because you have been shaped by the last 5 no good negros before him. Trauma. You keep cheating on your wife because you saw your daddy cheat on your momma. Trauma. You can't see your purpose because you are distracted by negative people surrounding you. Trauma. The truth is that we only notice our actions in drama, but in reality our trauma has built our current character which makes our conduct dramatic trauma. The way we handle things are based on what we have been through. Trauma. But trauma is not a life sentence. John Calvin wrote, " I leave these wounds untouched, because they appear to me incurable until the Lord applies his hand." When God applies his hands, He heals the wounds and reshapes your character because He knows that your conduct is just an expression of the content of your character. The trauma has changed who you were intended to be. Once you start to be honest about the pain and allow God to work you can get to the root of the trauma. A weed will continue to grow if you only deal with what is on the surface. Dig at the root instead of cutting at the stem only then will you solve the problem. Trauma is hard to deal with and hard to recognize but you have to remember that God is faithful and the things that he allows you to go through are necessary pain for necessary growth.
2 Corinthians 1:3-5
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ”
