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The Higher Power
Trauma:
A breach in the protective barrier against stimuli leading to feelings of overwhelming helplessness.
-Sigmund Freud (1914)
Though our planet can be a dangerous place,
we will no longer suffer from the constant fear that creates hypervigilance-
a feeling that danger always lurks and the worst often happens.
We will begin to face life with a developing sense of courage and trust.
The world will become a place where bad things may happen but they can be overcome.
Trust,
rather than anxiety,
forms the field in which all experience occurs.
Transformation ripples out into every corner of our lives,
much like the debilitating effects of trauma once did.
In trauma we have already put our lives on the line,
but the reward of salvation is yet to be claimed.
Have you ever seen a miracle?
I have seen quite a few.
One miracle I’ve seen is that God did not allow me to die during the events of my many traumas.
I represent a continuing living miracle as I choose every day to live victoriously by the grace of Christ.
The miracles I have seen happen in my life make a ‘higher power’ (God) impossible for me to deny.
There is an innate natural wisdom whose laws provide order in the universe.
It is certainly far more powerful than any individual’s personal history.
The organism,
subject to these laws,
tracks its way through even the most horrific experiences imaginable.
It is a miracle that I am alive.
It is a miracle that you are alive,
with all the torture we’ve been subjected to.
We are miracles because we are alive.
How can such a miracle happen if there is no God,
no wisdom,
no tiger in the universe?
We who have worked through traumatic reactions frequently say that there is both an animalistic and spiritual dimension to our lives after the trauma.
Those who work through traumatic reactions tell me there is both an animalistic and a spiritual dimension to HEALING.
After working through our trauma we will become spontaneous and less inhibited the expression of healthy assertion and joy.
We become more like the human animal through recovery.
We who have gone through the fire and have not died spiritually are left with a childlike reverence for life.
We have lost some innocence,
but we have gained much wisdom.
William Blake. 1757–1827
489. The Tiger
TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies 5
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart? 10
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp 15
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee? 20
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?