What To Do When You're Hurt

Years ago, a pastor told me I needed to grow tougher skin. I hated that advice. More than a decade later, I think I finally understand what was wrong with it and what it accidentally got right. Emotional pain has a way of making us reach for relief. Sometimes we push it down. Sometimes we sit in it. Sometimes we reach for something that will make it hurt less, even if only for a little while. But what if neither toughening up nor simply soothing the pain is actually the answer? In this episode of Realigned, we are going to look at emotional hurt through the Gospel and ask a deeper question: What should we actually do when we’re hurt?