Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts has educated us on “Tearing Down The Wall Built By Trauma’ via an Instagram post. The wife of Pastor Toure Roberts of One Online (A Potters House Church) posted a pretty picture of herself on Instagram and wrote:
It does not offer warmth nor welcome connection. It doesn’t even offer protection from rejection, but still it feels so safe to be the master of your fate.
Protecting your heart from another shatter. Changing your ways so you don’t feel so fragile. Resisting the intricacy of intimacy, the wall that trauma builds leaves what’s left of you alive but not growing…not healing… not owning.
I’ve been chipping at the wall that trauma built for quite some time. It’s been scary to see the the patterns and the pain that served me once but threaten to deform me now.
I’ve found comfort in Psalm 91 because I recognize that my trauma wall is merely a fig leaf in the presence of God.
Today I’m praying for every soul daring to vulnerably whisper, “My intentions were pure but my actions were wrong. I’ve got to tear down this God forsaking wall…because what I want more than anything at all is to see God.”