Healing the Wounds of Trauma

❂❂ DISCUSSION IN TWOS Think about your own father. As a child, did you experience his love? How does your experience with your earthly father affect your experience with your heavenly Father?

EXERCISE: EXPERIENCING GOD’S LOVE

1. Close your eyes. Now imagine you are a child and God is your loving Father. Sense the love in his eyes as he looks at you. Now listen as these verses are read aloud: Lamentations 3.21–23 1 John 3.1–2 1 John 4.9–10 1 Peter 5.7 2. Inspect your heart. Do you have any hidden doubts about God’s love? If so, tell them to God. 3. Sing some songs about God’s love for us. Psalm 103.13–14 Romans 8.14–16

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If God Loves Us, Why Do We Suffer?