Genesis 37:4

When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.

From Background Notes [BN] for Sept 6th & 7th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Many years ago, Alice Miller wrote a ground-breaking work on the struggles of childhood titled The Drama of the Gifted Child. The book examines the loss of the self that occurs in childhood and the subsequent process by which an adult can retrieve his or her true identity that was misplaced in earlier years.

The term “gifted child” refers to the child, who at an early age is acutely and intuitively aware of the parent’s needs. This book focuses on the recuperation process that follows an “abusive” childhood, defined as a growing up in a family environment in which a child had no choice but to acquiesce to the emotional needs of a parental figure. This results in a child ignoring his or her own needs, which results in the disappearance of the “real” self. [BN, 7]

Join us this week in Study, Worship, Praise and Celebration at Chicago First Church of the Nazarene:

* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am & 11:00am