My Body, Our Body. Broken Body, Healing Body.
1 Quote
“The past is always here, haunting our homes, standing over us at night. They say you don’t get rid of a ghost by pretending it isn’t there. The legends tell us to address the ghost directly. Declare that this is our home and it isn’t welcome here anymore. But I’m the only one yelling, screaming at spirits in the living room while everyone else averts their eyes, pretending there’s nothing wrong.” –Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know
1 Reflection
"You've got to put the past behind you."
"Yesterday is gone."
"Forgive and forget."
"Let go and let God."
Google "popular sayings about the past" and these are the kinds of things that come up. Except, as Stephanie Foo says, as in the quote above, "The past is always here, haunting our homes, standing over us at night."1
When I think about fellow BIPOC siblings who have endured spiritual abuse and racial trauma in the church, I think it can often be like a violent wind that blows open the tomes of our families' stories.
I learned this as I started trying to process what the hell happened to me in white evangelical spaces.
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