One of the most important signs that he is ultimately starting to come around and heal is his openness to even debate the subject of spirituality without going off into a tirade over the injustices that God had compelled him to endure. For many the long stormy nights of Winter and the archetypal dark night of the soul are uncomfortable. As well as being dark, times like these can feel cold, lonely and uninteresting. Whether the dark causes you to feel downcast, depressed, confused, nervous or afraid, you could be fast to counterbalance your pain by looking for methods to make more light, companionship, and activity in your life. In the long term, you'll see more progress if you learn how to work with the darkness instead of reject its existence. You could try and swim on your own, but the world and it's sea is an enormous place and humans are not built to swim alone for evermore. Your 3rd possibility is to reach for that life preserver, relax and trust that it'll bring you above water so you can once more breathe readily.
The life preserver will not pull you back up into the ship, but it will keep you from drowning so long as you trust that you're going to again be above water and you'll see the daylight on your face again. That is the way that the game was engineered to be played. We are supposed to reach out to our fellow man during periods of need and to supply a hand to others in need. I threw that life preserver out to him more times than I will count, but he swam away from it.
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