Fatalism may make us dependent on routines, on actions that we would feel urgency to change if we examined them. We may settle for finding satisfaction in dysfunctional, painful places, growing attached to our complaints, symptoms, addictions. One of the most insidious aspects of fatalism has to do with how it leads us to resist healing. We become hostage to a discouragement that insists that nothing more can be done. Fatalism reinforces our tenacious grasp on the old. We become stubbornly unwilling to consider anything outside our narrow experience. Fatalism can lead to depression, despair,
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Key here is to not ideologize our interpretations of healing. I may expect and want to walk again. But healing in God’s eyes may be learning to walk in spirit with the strength of Christ while carrying a cross that lifts and empowers my body in his glory.
