2 stories: Giants and healing.

                                            

A couple of stories from past week: A young man whom decided to expose his giant (game addiction) about a week ago, when he decided to choose relationships before games. Relationship with God and with his family. Both had suffered greatly for some time. The giant had him in its grip. The battle to confess the truth and expose the lie he believed, was grim. 

To make the story short. On Friday he said. ‘’The view of the world around me is suddenly so huge, after quitting gaming’’. A miracle of peace happened in his relationship with his family.  

To me, Anna, it speaks a lot. But what we saw was that addiction to games, particularly war games or games with weapons involved, if the person has a past of painful and unhealed woundings, traumas where explosive anger still is like a sleeping giant. When games takes over then the surrounding can become the enemy and it triggers the giant of anger and it can become very violent. It can become so violent that the ‘gamer’ cannot control it. I am so grateful the loving caring dad and husband is back. But it scares me to think of all those people out there who thinks they can control their gaming. Then when triggered, their loved ones are suffering or anyone else in the wrong place at the wrong time.

One mother, a new believer in our Church shared today how she was learning to forgive and reconcile with her family and seeing miracles happening in both her own heart and in her family. Her husband is not a believer and her son is struggling with drugs and depression. When inviting God into their relationships she saw much healing.  

Anna