From Crux Now-“I cut myself.”
It’s a bald statement, which I repeatedly hear in confessions of high school youth, one offered along with more mundane sins, such as disobeying one’s parents or stealing a jacket at school. Sometimes it’s followed by a specification. The young person behind the screen will add, “On my stomach.”
In one face-to-face confession, the young man showed me his arms.
In three decades of hearing confessions, I’d developed the attitude of Qoheleth, the author of Ecclesiastes: “There is nothing new under the sun.” But after twenty years of primarily scholastic ministry, I have returned to parochial ministry. Hearing so many confessions about “cutting” is new for me.
More here-
https://cruxnow.com/commentary/2016/11/13/lessons-confessional-dealing-cutting/
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