Healing the Wounds of Trauma

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Front Matter2
About this Book2
The Goals of This Book5
How This Book Came About6
How to Use This Book8
About the Lessons8
Preparing for the Sessions9
Related Trauma Healing Resources10
Lesson 112
If God Loves Us, Why Do We Suffer?12
1. The Story of Pastor Mark12
2. When We Are Suffering, What Do We Need to Remember about God’s Character?13
3. What Is the Origin of Suffering in the World?16
4. How Does God Use Suffering?17
5. Why Is It Difficult to Believe in God’s Goodness when We Suffer?18
Lesson 221
How Can the Wounds of Our Hearts Be Healed?21
1. The Story of John Mba21
2. What Is a Wound of the Heart?22
3. What Does the Bible Teach Us about How to Handle Our Feelings?25
4. How Can We Help Someone Heal from the Wounds of Their Heart?26
Lesson 331
What Happens When Someone Is Grieving?31
1. The Story of Pastor Ndri31
2. What Is Grieving?32
3. How Can We Grieve in a Way that Brings Healing?33
4. What Can Make Grieving More Difficult?35
5. How Can We Help Those Who Are Grieving?38
Lesson 443
How Can We Help Children Who Have Experienced Bad Things?43
1. The Story of Kasi43
2. How Do Children Who Have Experienced Bad Things Behave?45
3. How Do We Help Children Like Kasi?47
4. How Can We Help Child Soldiers?51
Lesson 553
How Can We Help Someone Who has Been Raped?53
1. Two Stories on Rape53
2. What Is Rape?56
3. What Are the Effects of Rape?56
4. How Can We Help Someone Who Has Been Raped?58
5. What about Children Born Out of Rape?61
6. How Can We Help Rapists?62
Lesson 663
How Can a Church Minister in the Midst of HIV and AIDS?63
1. Didier and Mary’s Story63
2. What Do You Know about HIV and AIDS?64
3. What Are Some False Beliefs that Increase the Spread of HIV?65
4. What Are Some Practices that Increase the Spread of HIV?66
5. How Can We Teach Children about Sex, HIV, and AIDS?67
6. How Can the Church Help a Person Living with HIV or AIDS?68
Answers to the Quiz72
Lesson 773
Caring for the Caregiver73
1. The Overloaded Pastor73
2. How Can We Know If a Caregiver Is Overloaded?74
3. Why Is It Difficult to Be a Caregiver?75
4. How Can Caregivers Take Care of Themselves?77
Lesson 880
Response: Taking Your Pain to the Cross80
1. Identify the Wounds of Your Heart81
2. Bring Your Wounds and Pain to Jesus83
3. Share the Good Things God Has Done84
Lesson 985
How Can We Forgive Others?85
1. Real and Fake Forgiveness85
2. Forgiveness Is Not . . .86
3. What Is Forgiveness?86
4. Why Does God Want Us to Forgive Other People?88
5. What If We Are the Ones Who Have Caused the Offense?90
About This Book2
The Goals of This Book5
How This Book Came About6
How to Use This Book8
Lesson 112
If God Loves Us, Why Do We Suffer?12
Lesson 221
How Can the Wounds of Our Hearts Be Healed?21
Lesson 332
What Happens When Someone Is Grieving?32
Lesson 443
How Can We Help Children Who Have Experienced Bad Things?43
Lesson 550
How Can We Help Someone Who Has Been Raped?50
Lesson 6A60
Domestic Abuse60
Lesson 6B69
Suicide69
Lesson 6C76
Addictions76
Lesson 783
Caring for the Caregiver83
Lesson 890
Response: Taking Your Pain to the Cross90
Lesson 995
How Can We Forgive Others?95
Lesson 10102
How Can We Live as Christians in the Midst of Conflict?102
Lesson 11113
Looking Ahead113
Forgiveness Ceremony120
Recommended Readings123
Acknowledgements124
About the Authors125

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