I was really impacted by this study that I did, and it is helping me to be a better witness for Christ,
to my neighbors and to the lost, and to all who are hurting!
The wounded healer is,
Emphasizing that which is in humanity common to both minister and believer, this woundedness can serve as a source of strength and healing when counseling others. Nouwen proceeds to develop his approach to ministry with an analysis of sufferings—a suffering world, a suffering generation, a suffering person, and a suffering minister. It is his contention that ministers are called to recognize the sufferings of their time in their own hearts and make that recognition the starting point of their service. For Nouwen, ministers must be willing to go beyond their professional role and leave themselves open as fellow human beings with the same wounds and suffering—in the image of Christ. In other words, we heal others from our own wounds.
Another definition of a Living Wounded Healer would be a Living martyr for Christ.
“As followers of Jesus we can also allow our wounds to bring healing to others.”
“Our service will not be perceived as authentic unless it comes from a heart wounded by the suffering about which we speak.”
This is a good further definition of a empath wounded healer. “In short: ‘Who can take away suffering without entering it?’ ”
“Nobody escapes being wounded. We all are wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually.”
“Jesus is God’s wounded healer: through his wounds we are healed.”
“A minister is not a doctor whose primary task is to take away pain. Rather, he deepens the pain by duplication to feel the pain to a level where it can be shared. ”
“Who can save a child from a burning house without taking the risk of being hurt by the flames?”
“Who can listen to a story of loneliness and despair without taking the risk of experiencing similar pains in his own heart and even losing his precious peace of mind?”
“The main question is not ‘How can we hide our wounds?’ so we don’t have to be embarrassed, but ‘How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?’ ”
“When our wounds cease to be a source of shame, and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers.”
The Wounded Healer
Wounded healers are people whose painful experiences enable them to help others. Wounded healers are good listeners, empathetic, accepting, and resourceful. They view all experiences as opportunities.
The greatest type of a wounded healer, is one who reaches out to
Heal others while their wounds are still fresh and maybe not fully or completely
Healed. This is a lively wounded healer who pays the ultimate cost to reach out to heal others pain while they them selves are still suffering pain. This unselfish act of Devine Love, so impacts the opposite person in need when they see this, a much deeper and complete healing takes place, than of a person who can not enter into their suffering, and who is not empath, and who has not suffered like They have.
For instance, a doctor who went threw cancer, or who is still in recovery, has a special empath heart to minister to his cancer patients. He is one who can enter into the sufferings of the ones who he is caring for. Another most powerful example of this Live Wounded Healer, came from the very heart of God while He was being almost wiped to death chained to a post. He softly spoke inside him self with the greatest empathy ever seen on earth, with these stripes, and with every drop of my blood that is running down this post, and down my legs, I am now presently healing the world, and am fulfilling the scripture, and with my stripes they are healed.
And then while in His great pain just before he died on His cross, He reached out threw His pain, and saved and healed the lost soul of the Thief who was hurting like himself on his own cross!
Lord Jesus, may we leave our comfort zone, and go beyond the walls of the church, and reach out and humble our selves and become a WOUNDED HEALER to reach more hurting and unsaved souls for Christ!
to my neighbors and to the lost, and to all who are hurting!
The wounded healer is,
Emphasizing that which is in humanity common to both minister and believer, this woundedness can serve as a source of strength and healing when counseling others. Nouwen proceeds to develop his approach to ministry with an analysis of sufferings—a suffering world, a suffering generation, a suffering person, and a suffering minister. It is his contention that ministers are called to recognize the sufferings of their time in their own hearts and make that recognition the starting point of their service. For Nouwen, ministers must be willing to go beyond their professional role and leave themselves open as fellow human beings with the same wounds and suffering—in the image of Christ. In other words, we heal others from our own wounds.
Another definition of a Living Wounded Healer would be a Living martyr for Christ.
“As followers of Jesus we can also allow our wounds to bring healing to others.”
“Our service will not be perceived as authentic unless it comes from a heart wounded by the suffering about which we speak.”
This is a good further definition of a empath wounded healer. “In short: ‘Who can take away suffering without entering it?’ ”
“Nobody escapes being wounded. We all are wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually.”
“Jesus is God’s wounded healer: through his wounds we are healed.”
“A minister is not a doctor whose primary task is to take away pain. Rather, he deepens the pain by duplication to feel the pain to a level where it can be shared. ”
“Who can save a child from a burning house without taking the risk of being hurt by the flames?”
“Who can listen to a story of loneliness and despair without taking the risk of experiencing similar pains in his own heart and even losing his precious peace of mind?”
“The main question is not ‘How can we hide our wounds?’ so we don’t have to be embarrassed, but ‘How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?’ ”
“When our wounds cease to be a source of shame, and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers.”
The Wounded Healer
Wounded healers are people whose painful experiences enable them to help others. Wounded healers are good listeners, empathetic, accepting, and resourceful. They view all experiences as opportunities.
The greatest type of a wounded healer, is one who reaches out to
Heal others while their wounds are still fresh and maybe not fully or completely
Healed. This is a lively wounded healer who pays the ultimate cost to reach out to heal others pain while they them selves are still suffering pain. This unselfish act of Devine Love, so impacts the opposite person in need when they see this, a much deeper and complete healing takes place, than of a person who can not enter into their suffering, and who is not empath, and who has not suffered like They have.
For instance, a doctor who went threw cancer, or who is still in recovery, has a special empath heart to minister to his cancer patients. He is one who can enter into the sufferings of the ones who he is caring for. Another most powerful example of this Live Wounded Healer, came from the very heart of God while He was being almost wiped to death chained to a post. He softly spoke inside him self with the greatest empathy ever seen on earth, with these stripes, and with every drop of my blood that is running down this post, and down my legs, I am now presently healing the world, and am fulfilling the scripture, and with my stripes they are healed.
And then while in His great pain just before he died on His cross, He reached out threw His pain, and saved and healed the lost soul of the Thief who was hurting like himself on his own cross!
Lord Jesus, may we leave our comfort zone, and go beyond the walls of the church, and reach out and humble our selves and become a WOUNDED HEALER to reach more hurting and unsaved souls for Christ!
