Being a Safe Place in Someone Else’s Storm

• By candidasullivan
• March 31, 2025
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We can hold onto the pain and find justifications for why we should. The longer we analyze and pick at it, the bigger it becomes. We often don’t see the enemy lying in the shadows, just waiting for another opportunity to hurt us.

He tries to get us to fight with each other. We fall into his trap when we take our pain out on someone else. The enemy can’t destroy us, but he can get us to hurt each other.

We all make mistakes and say things we regret. Our perception of things is based on our thoughts and feelings. Most of the time, it’s not the situation that genuinely hurts us but the meaning we give it. We are the ones who decide what matters to us and what we let go of.

The most powerful thing we can do is choose love over hurt. When we decide to forgive and love others, we take away the enemy’s power over us. Usually, the event only happens once, but we relive it repeatedly until we make it much bigger than it is.

When we believe that other people are doing their best in their circumstances, we can have compassion for them. So often, we don’t know their turmoil inside. Most outbursts have nothing to do with us. It is because we suppress our emotions daily until we can’t take it anymore. Then, something small triggers us, and we explode.

When I see it this way, I can show up with grace and forgiveness and be a safe place for others. I can love them through the pain instead of adding more to it.

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