"And I had heard that term before: Wounded Healer. Yet I had never applied the term to my life. It makes you wonder, doesn't it, whether or not God calls specific people who have specific pain into the authority of empathy? Experience is, after all, the best education. We are the ones...who will mentor others through the difficult journey of life, perhaps rescuing them from what we have been rescued.
"I knew...that if these people in South Africa who had suffered unconscionable wrongs could rise in dignity, God would expect nothing less from you and me, having encountered lesser pain...if John and I have a prayer for you...it is that we would not be arrogant victims, but wounded healers." -Donald Miller, To Own A Dragon
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