I'm not going to share the details on the internet for the world to see, but most of what I did was denying it. Untreated wounds get infected and cause more complications. We cover it with a band-aid hoping that it's enough to cover it so we can hide it, but it doesn't heal. Many of us have the mentality that wounds are shameful, that real men don't get hurt, that pain is a concept foreign to a man. The only thing more tragic than the tragedy that happens to us is the way we handle it." Or perhaps they'll admit it happened, but deny it was a wound because they deserved it. A man's not supposed to get hurt' he's certainly not supposed to let it really matter. "That sort of misunderstanding is why for most of us, our wound is an immense source of shame. But a man must be able to acknowledge a wound, otherwise it can never heal. Men are taught to be tough, to suck it up and not cry when we fall and scrap our knee. He's told to "Quit whining and just take it like a man!" Right now I keep thinking of the scene in Night at the Museum where Larry first encounters the miniature figures, who have tripped him and tied him down with his head on the railroad tracks. He who is truly a man keeps walking, dragging his guts behind." I know I'm not the only one who has gotten something along those lines somewhere along the way. A wound that stops you from continuing to play is a girlish wound. "Men are taught over and over when they are boys that a wound is shameful. The journey into manhood begins with our wound. Instead it begins with something we are very aware of.
It can be difficult to do because God will stretch us, He has to in order for us to become who He created us to be, and since this is initiation its purpose is to test us so we realize we are powerful and have what it takes.īut the journey doesn't begin with a test of strength. It can be a bit frightening, because it involves us giving up the idea of control. In order to be alone with God we must trust Him and follow Him into the unknown.
"There comes a time when you have to leave all that is familiar and go on into the unknown with God." In order to be a Man of God, we have got to get alone with God.
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