healing

We want all the benefits of the resurrection without acknowledging our dependence on God as mortal creatures.

Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly.

I am both numb and oversensitive, overwhelmed by the need, the raw and desperate need of the girls I am listening to and trying to help. I'm overdosing on the trauma of others, while still barely healing from my own.I cry for hour at home and have fitful nights of little sleep. My nightmares resurface as my own pain is repeated to me, magnified a thousand times. It feels insurmountable. How can you save everyone? How can you rescue them? How do you get over your pain? How do you ever feel normal?

And Beauvoir knew then the man was a saint. He's been touched by any number of medical men and women. All healers, all well intentioned, some kind, some rough. All made it clear they wanted him to live, but none had made him feel that his life was precious, was worth saving, was worth something.

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.

We could all spend a lifetime unraveling the knots of our childhood, but at some point you realize the knots are no longer yours. They belong to your parents, and their parents before them. The legacy is long and complicated, the damage passed on through generations, until one day someone finally stops and says: This story does not belong to me. ~"This I Know

Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy. _If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.

He forced my soul back into innocent belief, not by empty words or false promises but by consistent action that never failed. He was safe.

No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around.

Often it isn__ the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.

We don't heal in isolation, but in community.

There__ only one way to find peace with a painful past and that is through a personal relationship with God through faith in Jesus Christ. He alone, through His Spirit, can place a healing balm on our deep wounds. The Bible says: __ou can__ heal a wound by saying it__ not there!_ (Jeremiah 6:14 TLB)We (Beth and Sherrie) have found that in the places that hurt the most, God brings a promise from the Bible to our memory at just the right time. We have experienced comfort and growth through our growing relationship with Jesus and how we long for the same growth for you!

My father, for whose skills as a surgeon I have the deepest respect, says, "The operation with the best outcome is the one you decide not to do." Knowing when not to operate, knowing when I am in over my head, knowing when to call for the assistance of a surgeon of my father's caliber--that kind of talent, that kind of "brilliance," goes unheralded.

When our heart is closed, it can create a lonely and isolated feeling together with the attitude: "Nobody loves me" or "Nobody cares about me", which can make it hard for other people to love us.

I agree. To me, it [galloping on horseback] is the essence of freedom__he power of the beast beneath you, the wind in your face, the thundering of the hooves. It is a great elixir for the soul.___nd does your soul need healing, Benjamin?_ she asked quietly, gently running her fingertips across his bicep and down his forearm.He turned away from the view of the pond and looked at her with clear, blue eyes, his expression serious. He captured her fingers in the palm of his hand. __y healing started the day I met you. You are my elixir.___hen perhaps you need another dose,_ she whispered, her face upturned as she leaned closer to him.

Moses needed to learn that God was Jehovah-tsidkenu__he One who is righteous and the source of true acceptance. The staff was symbolic of Moses_ life. God was asking him to let go of it__o give complete control to him. When Moses picked it up, it was no longer his life but the very life of God_Just like Moses, until we yield control of our lives to Jesus Christ, it is impossible to see ourselves through God__ eyes. Try as we may, we will never see our worth through accomplishments or the opinions of others. (from Under His Wings: Healing Truth for Adoptees of All Ages)

If there is one thing I'd learned about hospitals, it's that they aren't interested in healing you. They are interested in stabilizing you, and then everyone is supposed to move on. They go to stabilize some more people, and you go off to do whatever you do. Healing, if it happens at all, is done on your own, long after the hospital has submitted your final insurance paperwork.

Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.