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# Are you feeling gooey?
- URL: https://www.belonging.house/are-you-feeling-gooey/
- Published: 2026-08-21T10:00:27.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-21T10:00:26.000Z
- Author: Christ John Otto

Feeling ooey-gooey?

That's the feeling of **transition.**

And by the way, thanks for praying for me and Belonging House.

Many people around me  
are going through big changes.  
That means leaving the safe and the comfortable  
behind.  
And walking out toward something  
that isn't there yet.

Moving is like that.  
So is growing.  
And so is healing.  
We have prayed for hundreds of people  
who have been set free from trauma.  
This week I prayed for a man  
who had a back problem.  
When I prayed, I felt the knot move  
and he was healed.  
In that moment  
the trick is to act like the pain is gone.  
The same is true for trauma.  
Eventually you have to learn to live like  
a healthy, non-traumatized person.

The old is gone,  
and the new has come.

The past year has been a year of transition,  
and there have been many days  
where I had to accept  
that I can't go to the corner pub  
and have a pint with my friends,  
or go out for Indian in Angel Market,  
or walk through the V&A to clear my thinking.  
**I had to stop looking back.**

The first step toward the new thing  
is turning from the old.  
**You cannot hear the New Sound** 
**when you are singing an old song.**

You have to surrender,  
and you have to trust  
that in the grey fog of the future,  
the Lord who is already there--  
is already there.

**Fear not, God can be trusted.** 
**Really.**

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**Thanks for reading,**  
and giving me a moment of your  
precious time  
in a day when many people are abusing  
the email inbox.

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He Never Fails,  
Christ

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