👏🏼 - congrats on your first article! You ARE a writer to be sure. You’ve reminded me of how Dr. Dan Allender, a Christian psychologist and therapist once defined sin as man’s attempt to do life autonomously apart from God. The aim is off. Most of us, probably all of us will have received wounds, sadly horrendous wounds for many as children, and these wounds cause us to relate in such a way to make self preservation the target and aim, and as we do this we end up doing harm to others. There’s so much more to this, but I’ll stop there.

Also, I loved the sections about our desires needing a right orientation. A professor at seminary once told us that there are three basic parts to us: knowledge, desire (or affection), and will. Knowledge: cake is bad, it will make you fat. The will: we will not eat the cake. Desire: but I really LOVE cake! 😂- what we need is a transformation and healing of our desire and affection so that our aim is always pointed in the right direction ☦️