I once had EMDR recommended to me to help me “process” any “PTSD” related to my vivid memories of walking in on my mother’s suicide attempt and having to be the child (I was a teenager) who called 9-1-1, took immediate steps to preserve her life, etc. etc. It didn’t seem like a good fit for me, but if someone had asked me why, I seriously doubt I could have given a very substantive (biblical, practical) response. Thank God for brilliant men like Ed Welch! His article on this topic is instructive and, as is true of all of his writings, God-centered: EMDR and the Meaning of Suffering    

Another must-read RZIM devotional from Jill Carattini: Nouns and Adjectives On the Throne Stick through it to the end. It’s worth it! I’ll tempt you with the final paragraph to show you what I mean …   “I don’t know why the throne was empty every time I closed my eyes some years ago. Perhaps I had removed God from the throne long before tragedy hit like a roaring sea and seemed to remove everything in its wake. Perhaps God was ruling from the rooms where we needed God most. I don’t know. But the emptiness of the throne forced me to reexamine the one who inhabits sovereignty itself. Carretto’s…