“I have learned that the Father relentlessly works to reshape his blood-brought children into the likeness of his son...our task, however, is not merely to endure suffering, but to embrace it, find God on it and draw closer to him through it. Simply put, ‘There is no remedy for this darkness but to sink in it.” A quote from Bruce Demarest, found in his book Seasons of the Soul, discusses the three stages of spiritual development, orientation, disorientation, and reorientation. Disorientation is the stage where trials and sufferings are faced, but most importantly, a stage where we use our pains and sufferings to help us grow. Murray Decker explains disorientation as a stage of “lostness and dryness.” Everyone has their own experiences with this stage of disorientation, and many times in this stage we begin to doubt and question our faith, we can become angry and question God why this trouble would happen. It is a stage where we fill the brokenness in our lives. In my own personal life, I have experienced disorientation in many different forms, whether it was something that I did wrong or that I was wronged by. I was upset with God and I constantly questioned his existence and love, I was confused at why this would happen to me, but ultimately I was alone. People thought that pointing me to church and the bible would’ve helped me but as I sat there and listened to the pastor or the counselor telling me what was wrong it never helped clarify any of the emotions I was …show more content…
He does so only to bring the soul back to health...to drive from it every kind of spiritual evil.” (Demarest) Going through various experiences in life I have seen how things that should have destroyed me, God used these experiences to point me to him. I was left wounded but he was the one who healed