Testimonies in a Secular world

I’ve to make a presentation(in a couple of hours) - a short one nonetheless, to a particular organisation known as S.P.A.R.K.
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Society for the Promotion of AD(H)D Research and Knowledge

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I’ve come a long way since then, years ago, where classmates had to pack bags for me,
where everyone commented I was living in a world on my own...
Where everywhere I went - people considered me a social outcast
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Now I’m trying to run a few initiatives to help others who face the same thing
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what they want to hear - is probably a story somehow of ‘hope’ - how did you overcome the problems you faced through the growing up years
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My main idea would be then of self esteem and acceptance. No doubt as a child I always claimed to have high self-esteem, but I realise much later that it was merely a facade I put up as a defence mechanism. After all, ignorance and being oblivious to the world around is an effective way of shielding one’s self from the harsh reality out there, as is positive thinking
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The question is, where can you find this ‘self-esteem’ and ‘acceptance’ ? I’m firmly convinced of this, that nothing in this world could ever satisfy a human’s need for love, and acceptance. Self-help books and secular existentialist philosophy may claim one has to work in ‘thinking positively’ - the kind of crap I’ve to teach during trainings - but it’s merely another defence mechanism to protect one’s self - as well as being a rip-off eastern religious philosophy.

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Only God has the ability to heal our past hurts and disappointments, our desire for intimacy and acceptance...

Our identity in Christ is what defines us as a person - it’s what gives us ‘self-worth’, or better put, ‘Christ-worth’

Human ideas, acceptance by others can only work so far, people always disappoint, thats a matter of fact.


... All flesh is grass,
and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
The grass withers, the flower fades
when the breath of the LORD blows on it;
surely the people are grass.
The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever....

(Isaiah 40:6-8)

...Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
His understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint,
and to Him who has no might he increases strength.

Even youths shall faint and be weary,
and young men shall fall exhausted;
but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint....

(Isaiah 40:28-31)

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Now the question is - how do I package it in a ‘secular’ manner without being overtly ‘christian’

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As a off topic - photos from my 4th mission trip to Thailand:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/limexd/sets/72157626923296028/

More to come...