Fear and Shame

Shame produces fear.
Fear produces torment.
He who fears has not been perfected in love.

I like to look for the origins of things, to understand them better and to be able to work with them in a more definitive way, when possible.
It is always a slow process, a constant search; and everyone who seeks finds.

The Scriptures reveal a way of dealing with shame: despising it.
Easy to say, but how do we do it?

Therefore, since we also are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders us and the sin that entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners against himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
Hebrews 12:1-4

Jesus showed us the way: If anyone wants to come after me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow me.
It is as if every affront, every shame we are going through were a nail, a big spike, nailing us to our own cross.
There may be another way, but I have not found any other way out yet.

Let there be light!