The Woe, The Wound, The Womb and the Umbilical Connection
How the devil turns our wounds into an identity—and how Mary leads us back to belonging There is something sinister about the way the devil works. He doesn't always need to make us openly reject God. Sometimes he does something far more subtle: he takes a wound we already carry and builds a lie around it. Then he repeats the lie until we stop hearing it as a lie. We begin hearing it as our own voice. You are unworthy. You are dirty. You are a hypocrite. You are an old creep pretending to be holy. Look at what goes on inside your head. What kind of Christian are you? You are a pervert. This is who you really are. And slowly, almost imperceptibly, something terrible happens. A lie becomes an identity. We stop saying, "I struggle with this." We begin saying, "This is me." We stop saying, "I have a wound." We begin saying, "Something is fundamentally wrong with me." And once shame becomes identity, the devil doesn...