To Feel is to Be Seen
To heal is important and something we all want after we’ve been broken. We are all broken, broken by different things. Some by other people, some through ourselves. Some of us put the blame on ourselves and some of us put the blame on them. But we all have different mechanisms for healing. But do they work? I don’t know. I just know that Jesus is the answer. That He is the only One that can make the broken one feel whole again. For me, I hate processes. I am probably the most impatient person you will ever meet. I know I have to work on it, and it is a subject of a lot of prayer. But it is still there – hate waiting for answers. And that comes into my ability to heal too. I would rather just rationalize everything and not feel. Feeling can lead to pain, feeling can lead to weakness, feeling can also lead to joy. But sometimes, after being hurt the joy seems too small a chance to validate feeling again. So, my “healing strategy” has been to move on. To pretend I was never