A series of family emergencies have stolen my blogging time these past few weeks. I hope to be back posting more consistently again very soon but, in the meantime, I ran into this quote that I want to share with you.
“Until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex; but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in the your past, the memories, and make peace with them.”
— Iyanla Vanzant
It’s so true—nothing in our life goes away until it’s resolved. Even if we try to push the hurts and memories into the deep recesses of our mind, they are still there, just out of sight, affecting the way we see and deal with life.
The “bandages” we try to apply only succeed in covering the wounds so we can pretend that they aren’t there. They don’t actually heal anything. Our wounds will continue to fester and bleed until we decide to bring them into the open and ask God to help us find true healing.
Do you have painful wounds or memories that you have been trying desperately to hide from yourself and others? Nearly all of us do. There is no shame in the fact that we’ve been injured, even if we inadvertently did some of it to ourselves.
No matter how deep, no matter how old, God has the power and grace to heal every one of our wounds, if we will only peel back the bandages long enough to allow him to minister to us.
“Lord my God, I called to you for help and you healed me. — Psalm 30:2 (NIV)
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