One who promises to guide me … and restore comfort to me.
One who is committed to creating praise on the lips of … mourners. One who proclaims: Peace, peace, to those far and near … And I will heal them’ (Is 57:18-19). It is well worth noting the following reflection of Roland Orzabal in the 2013 Quietus interview[1]: RO: I ended up doing primal therapy after Big Chair and during Seeds Of Love, and then I realised so much of you is your character, and you’re born like it. I think that definitely any trauma – whether it’s childhood or later in life – affects you negatively, especially when it’s suppressed, but there’s so much of us which is already in place. I believe that primal theory – which has been absorbed into modern psychotherapy practices – is very, very valid, but a good therapist is a good therapist. He doesn’t have to be a primal therapist. And here we dare to speculate that a Creator, if indeed we have one, may well be the best therapist of all. On my own Could you ease my load? Could you see my pain? Could you please explain the hurting? One whose words calmly echo through the ages: “Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” (Matthew 11:28-30) ‘could you please explain the hurting?’ One who may not choose to ‘explain the hurting’ but who does identify with the hurting, and even, over time, heal the hurting. ‘A father to the fatherless … … a God who ‘sets the lonely in families’ (Psalm 68:5) A God who is never an absent father. A God who understands a child ‘when he cries in pain’. [1] In Their Own Words. This Is Going To Hurt: The Mad World Of Tears For Fears’ Debut LP Wyndham Wallace, September 20th, 2013 09:28, http://thequietus.com/articles/13379-tears-for-fears-the-hurting-interview, accessed 12 April 2016.
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