Have you ever felt like giving up?

Of course, if your answer to that is no,

you're a superhero from another realm in another universe.

The reality is, we've all felt like giving up.

Second question, you ever felt like making a snow angel?

Why do I ask?

This Christmas season, true story, my wife and I are both in our 40s. She's older than me. I don't want to get into it. But she said to me, true story, we were in a place here in Seattle that had snow on the ground and she said I want to go for a walk and make a snow angel and I looked at her as if someone had taken over her body and I said are you

serious she goes yeah I want to make a snow angel and so we walked outside and quiet

actually very quietly and she she got down on the ground and she literally made a snow angel and I'm just

kind of standing there and I didn't join her I don't want to get in the snow and get my

clothes wet and maybe that's called getting old, I don't know and I looked at her and and

then she's laying in the snow and she goes,

I think I need you to help me up.

And it's true story.

I'm standing over and she's like, no I can't get out of this not like you have to help me up I have

fallen and I can't get up.

Trauma, which is deeply distressing or disturbing experience,

that's what trauma is, it's when you have

a distressing, disturbing experience at a very deep level that's the definition of

trauma we're doing a collection of sermons on trauma this is part three have you

ever gone through trauma where it leaves you feeling like I'm not going to get up from this one?

I'm not going to come back from this one. I'm not going to come back from this one. See when trauma couples with failure or weakness or falling or faltering or making a dumb decision,

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