While stress is motivation for making needed changes, it can also fuel emotional outbursts and provide distractions for completing personal tasks. Ernest Hemingway was wounded in both legs during World War I and spent a month in a military hospital recovering. Years later, nightmares about that event still ruled his sleep.
The significance of trauma, regardless of its source, is ongoing related stress. Stress may show up as delayed grief over important losses associated with trauma. Trauma can be thought of as a wound or injury so shocking and emotionally disturbing that complete recovery seems never to be forthcoming.
Trust God to keep his promises to be present as a source of comfort for you when life’s sorrows and grief surface. Keep in mind that grief is God’s way for helping you heal as well as being an appropriate means to manage stress that is a normal part of life. Remember God loves you.
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Now may our Lord Jesus
Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal
comfort and a wonderful hope, comfort you and strengthen you in every good
thing you do and say.
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