A testimony of faith and healing: ‘God in my ruins’ – Primer plano
The doctor and writer Julieth Benavides, presents God in my ruinsa deeply intimate book that tells its personal reconstruction process in pain. Losses, addictions, disappointments and persistent loneliness marked the breakdown from which he began writing. «I wrote to heal,» he says, and from that need to transform suffering into something bigger, this honest and brave testimony was born.
As a doctor, Julieth has been facing human suffering in its crudest form: exhausted bodies, eyes that ask for help, souls fighting. That closeness allowed him to discover that, although not all pain can be cured, it can be accompanied. A hug, a word or a prayer can be more powerful than any medicine. In his experience, God manifests itself in everyday life, in the wounded, in the human.
The central message of God in my ruins It is clear and moving: you are not alone. You don’t need to be complete to approach God. He does not scare your ruins, inhabits and transforms them. Each wound can become an act of love if it is put in the hands of who knows how to heal tenderly. For Julieth, hope is not a naive comfort, but a certainty that is born to discover that, even in pain, God never abandons.
