Individual Stories

We (my wife and I) have adopted this kind of inner healing as a lifestyle. That is to say, whenever God puts his finger on something that he wants to change in our lives, instead of just trying hard to be the way God wants us to be (and failing), we adopt the techniques and strategies described on the web site. Inner healing is actually all about dealing with unconfessed sin, but people generally find that a difficult pill to swallow when it is put like that.

This section contains accounts of various things which, individually, are not particularly earth-shattering. However, when added up they do make quite a difference to life. Everybody has minor character flaws (which they may or may not admit to), and the tendency is just to put up with them, or try and do better next time. They are the sort of things that get our spouses really annoyed. Married couples tend to be like hedgehogs: the closer they try to get to each other the more their spikes stick into one another. And so what happens is that marriages end up being a truce or ceasefire, rather than a relationship of growing love and mutual discovery. My Mum used to say of my Dad, “He has his little ways” [like King John, who was not a good king, and sometimes nobody spoke to him for days and days and days – King John, that is]. But she would graciously, and mostly silently, put up with them all.

I have tried to make them not all the same, and so I have highlighted and made different points in each of them.