Whenever someone takes a deep breath before speaking, you know the following words will usher from a depth of felt experiences that have been reflectively woven together for benefit. Matthew Pearl, a licensed social worker and counselor, shared however from a personal rather than a professional vantage point. He knitted scriptural wisdom with his own suffered perceptions of what keeps people from being and living in right relationship with each other.
Matthew’s delineation of negative behaviors in our “me vs. we” society, our penchant for quick judgement especially on “otherness,” our slowness to allow God’s own unconditional love to be received — all are astutely shared in manifold layers of insight. Listen to Matthew’s words of how suffering equalizes us and binds us to shared yearnings for healing, transformed hearts.