Just as with physical numbness, spiritual numbness does not have to be permanent. While the season of cold may leave scars, the heart can be thawed. Feeling can return. Life can be restored. But as with frostbite, healing does not happen instantly. Breaking the ice is a process—slow, intentional, and dependent on care beyond ourselves.Continue reading “Thawing Your Frozen Heart”
Monthly Archives: January 2026
The Price of a Frozen Heart
Just as physical or emotional numbness carries a cost, spiritual numbness does as well—but its cost is far greater. Frostbite may cost fingers or toes. Emotional numbness may cost empathy, intimacy, or relationships. Spiritual numbness, left unchecked, costs everything. What begins as dullness ends in loss, because the slow freeze of the heart never stopsContinue reading “The Price of a Frozen Heart”
Forms of Spiritual Numbness
Because numbness is the loss or dulling of sensation, it can take many forms. We can become numb to temperature, spices, alcohol/drugs, certain foods, loud sounds, or even silence. We can also become numb to stress, emotional pain, tragedy, and physical suffering. In each case, numbness develops through overexposure or overuse. What once provoked aContinue reading “Forms of Spiritual Numbness”
The Slow Freeze: How Numbness of the Heart Happens
To begin, we must first understand how numbness of the heart occurs. How do our hearts become hard, our ears dull, our eyes blind, and our souls numb? It is a slow, gradual process. It does not happen suddenly or overnight. It isn’t even like a snowball rolling down a hill, growing larger as itContinue reading “The Slow Freeze: How Numbness of the Heart Happens”
Spiritual Numbness
Have you ever been outside in the bitter cold for an extended period of time? I’ve done a lot of running in freezing weather, and I can tell you from experience—after a while, you lose feeling in your fingers, toes, nose, ears, and even your face. Eventually, you almost forget how cold it really isContinue reading “Spiritual Numbness”
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