By Shelli Virtue
Unpacking Your Pain
Bible Study Workbook
Pain – we’ve all experienced it in one form or another – physical, mental, emotional, social, relational. Each person has a unique way of dealing with pain. Some spend a lot of time whining and complaining about it. Others put a smile on their face, but we can tell they’re dealing with a lot. Then, there are those we think never deal with pain because they hide it or avoid dealing with it.
Your Path Towards Complete Healing
Pain – we’ve all experienced it in one form or another – physical, mental, emotional, social, relational. Each person has a unique way of dealing with pain. Some spend a lot of time whining and complaining about it. Others put a smile on their face, but we can tell they’re dealing with a lot. Then, there are those we think never deal with pain because they hide it or avoid dealing with it.
We will be using Lamentations as a guideline for completely working through our pain. The book of Lamentations is written in an acrostic form through the Hebrew alphabet. This form is used to express the completeness of walking through pain. It starts at the beginning of the Hebrew alphabet and expresses sorrow with each section beginning with words corresponding with each sequential letter.
You will get out of this study what you are willing to put into it! The more you get down on paper, the more you’ll be able to process pain, and create a clear plan moving forward in hope for healing. This study works through our pain from nearly every perspective we can imagine. We will dig deep!
Audio Session 1
Audio Session 2
Audio Session 3
Audio Session 4
Audio Session 5
Audio Session 6
Audio Session 7
SPOILER ALERT!!
Below are the answer to the questions in the audio sessions. Don’t scroll further until you’re ready to see how awesome you did.
Below are the answers to the audio session questions. Obviously, you should be able to do these on your own from the material provided, but at least this way you can double-check your answers or confirm that you got them all right.
ANSWERS TO AUDIO SESSION ONE
I.A. weakness
I.B. short
I.C. vocal, lengthy
II.A. caring, compassionate
II.B. confidentiality
III.B. understand
III.D. deep
III.E. concern
III.G. box, box
IV.A. advice
IV.D. answers, problems
V.A pain, hurt, reaction
V.B. blind spots, another perspective, bring it to the light
VI. A. completeness
ANSWERS TO AUDIO SESSION TWO
I.B. interested
yes, that really is all there is!
ANSWERS TO AUDIO SESSION THREE
I.A. allowed
I.B. care
I.C. understand
I.D. solutions
II.A.1. Time
II.A.3 deeper
II.B. help
II.B.2. boxing
ANSWERS TO AUDIO SESSION FOUR
I.A. remove
I.B. perspective
I.C. declutter
I.C.1. Junk
I.C.2. Lost
I.C.3. Recycle
II.A. edit
II.B. change
II.C. embrace
III.A. actions
III.B. obtained
III.C. attitudes
ANSWERS TO AUDIO SESSION FIVE
I.A.1. Different
I.A.2. How
I.A.3. Part
I.A.3.a) more
I.A.3.b) involved
I.A.3.c) team
I.A.3.d) okay
I.A.4. Assume
I.B. with
I.B.1.fresh
I.B.2. Load
I.B.3. Hold
II.A. influence
II.B. all
II.C. positive
II.D. permanently
II.E. small
ANSWERS TO AUDIO SESSION SIX
I. Credit
I.A. You
II. Reactions
II.A. Unpacking
III. Untruthful
IV.A.1. Specifics
IV.A.3. Sentence
IV.D. Loved
V.A. Finish
V.B. hanging
ANSWERS TO AUDIO SESSION SEVEN
II.A. Hurt
II.B. Feel
V.A. Empty
VI. Mess