12.12- I can trust an unknown future to a known God.

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 12.12-

I can trust an unknown future to a known God.
You have heard of PTSD. Post traumatic stress
DISORDER.
Have you heard of PTSG?
Post traumatic stress GROWTH.
Great trauma and stress is not followed by "normal life" but by shattered views of what life with God is like for all of us broken people (and all of us are broken).
My feet and ankles dropped to 85% effectiveness on 5.23.05.((age 59)
Then by 7.10.13, A cane.
Then on 9.4.22 the end of a 55 year marriage.
Then by 9.10.22, A walker.
Then on 10.13.23, a motorized scooter, (electric wheel chair) 90%.
My life has become very different but I am learning it can lead to GROWTH.
Spiritual, emotional GROWTH.
I am starting to experience
SOCIAL Growth.
Now God has brought into my life these new PTSG meetings.
Sunday. 2, Monday 1, Tuesday, 4, Wednesday 2, Thursday, 1.
Ten PTSG meetings per week with other men, who also are spiritually broken in one way or another. They have wheel chairs inside their mind and heart.
We have no detailed agenda. To be present with each other by in personal visits, phone calls, Zoom meetings, with sharing Scripture reading and prayer.
If we go through PTS,
Post
Traumatic
Stress
It grieves us.
We miss and remember our "Prime,"
We can choose to use this as fuel for growth in knowing God and each other better.

2 Corintbians 1
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in [b]any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ are [c]ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. 6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; 7 and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are partners in our sufferings, so also you are in our comfort.
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