Thread by @lorewilbert

Everyone you meet isn't just fighting a battle, as the old trope says. I say in HWC that we all have issues of blood in need of healing. Systemic issues in our bloodlines, traumas we've endured, insight into peculiar sufferings we've walked through.

So, yes, everyone is fighting a battle, but also we have insight into our specifics no one else does just like us. Which means two things:

1. We should not carry our trauma as though no one can possibly understand except us. Others carry theirs too.
2. We should view our trauma as though God wants to do specific work in us and through us because of it. No one gets it exactly like we do.

This is hard for humans because we are binary. We want one or the other and can't fathom both are true at the same time. We want to treat others like they *couldn't* understand or assume everyone *needs* to understand exactly as we do.

Humans are complex and stories are too. The good news: God is at work redeeming our PRECISE story and he is at work redeeming the WHOLE story. We have to both see ourselves as one and as many to believe that in a fully integrated way and to be fully integrated ourselves.