Wounded Healers

By his wounds you have been healed. - 1 Peter 2:22

Jesus has been called “The Wounded Healer” because he has not remained distant from his people’s suffering. Instead, he shared their humanity with them, which included pain and suffering.

What would it look like for you to be a wounded healer? Certainly you have wounds. Are you willing to put them in the service of Christ, to be vehicle of grace to others?

The famous priest who gave up his professorship in the Ivy Leagues to go and live in a home for mentally disabled adults wrote this:

"Making one’s own wounds a source of healing, therefore, does not call for a sharing of superficial personal pains, but for a constant willingness to see one's own pain and suffering as rising from the depth of the human condition that we all share." - Henri Nouwen

Go around the Learning Circle (below) with this idea of leveraging your own roundedness to participate in the healing of others. What is God saying to you? What will you do with it?