We are a Community

Hello to the Warriors out there, Watch Dog here.

I have started reading a book called “Spiritual DIRECTION” by Henri Nouwen. While reading the other night I read a passage that has really stuck with me. I would like to share this passage with everyone because it hit me right between the eyes. This short paragraph says what I have wanted to be able to say to people for years. (I just didn’t know the words) This is the paragraph “To those with serious struggles and burning questions, I want to reach out with compassion and say: “You seek answers to what can not be fully known. I don’t know either, but I will help you search. I offer no solutions, no final answers. I am as weak and limited as you are. But we are not alone. Where there is charity and love, God is there. Together, we form community. Together we continue the spiritual search.”

“To those with serious struggles and burning questions” These people are anyone who lives with PTSD or someone who cares for someone with PTSD. These numbers are unknown because so many people live with PTSD in silence. They refuse to ask for help, or they are scared to ask for help, or they don’t realize they need help yet.

“I want to reach out with compassion and say: You seek answers to what can not be fully known.” These issues can not be fully known because PTSD affects everyone differently. No person on Earth can fully know what you are going through.

“I don’t know either, but I will help you search.” Even though I have lived with PTSD myself now for 18 years, I do not know exactly what you are going through. I have some ideas because I have walked through those same dark paths, but not in your shoes.

“But I will help you search.” I got your six! I am willing to lace up my boots, jump down in that dark hole, and do battle with you. I will walk by your side until we find some light. We will fight your demons together.

“I offer no solution, no final answers.” I do not have the cure all pill, I can not fix what is going on in your head. I can promise to help you and support you while you are working to figure it out. It is a very long and hard battle, but with battle buddies or wing men the battle is a little easier.

“I am as weak and limited as you are.” I have been beat down, and lost my-self. I can not win my battles or defeat my demons on my own either. I depend on a team to help me too.

“But we are not alone.” You are not alone in this fight. There are people who are willing to help, who want to help.

“Where there is charity and love, God is there.” People who help others is charity and they do the charity freely because it comes from a place of love. This is all guided by the love of God. If God is with you, who can be against you?

“Together, we form community.” If a person is alone they are much easier to defeat, but when there is a community, we are so much stronger together. A single thread can break with ease, but a three fold cord does not easily break. If a person is alone and stumbles and falls who is there to lend a hand? If someone in the community falls there are brothers and sisters there to help them back up.

“Together we continue the spiritual search.” Together we can stay strong and continue to seek a way out of the darkness and back into the light.

This was a very heart touching paragraph for me. I truly hope you all gained some strength and or some insight from it. God bless you all.

Remember God loves you and we love you.

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Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Watch Dog.