A repost "HOPE FOR THE HURTING ONES"
Originally posted ... Thursday, August 14, 2008
HOPE FOR THE HURTING ONES
My thoughts for those hurting (physically and/or emotionally) for those in recovery or in rehab or trying to be there.
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I know it (everything) is so very hard when you are in pain and hurting. I mean really really really hurting, damaged, dysfunctional, broken, and just a big painful fragmented mess. It is hard to believe that you will survive and harder still to believe that you will have healing.
If I could tell my story, the fullness of it, how I lived as a child of God, helpless and hopeless for too long, would you hear me, would you believe, would you keep fighting, would you be able to see that my faith in my Healer God is NOT some security blanket I wrap around myself to delude myself. That my faith in God is actually what moves me from a life filled with destructive behaviors, thoughts, and attitudes; to a life filled with healing, and habits that grow joy and wholeness.
I could not do it on my own. I needed and still need God. We all do. We have not been left without hope. There is goodness and beauty. God pours it out new everyday. Fight to see it and enjoy it. FIGHT for healing! There is HOPE!! The HOPE is sure. There is redemption. Redemption is more than just some spot in heaven one day. Redemption is for right now–today; to be redeemed in this moment, to be freed/redeemed from all kinds of destruction, to be healed from the pain and wounds, to be freed/redeemed to live life, a life FULL of LIFE, full of joy, healing, and peace beyond our circumstances.
***sigh****
I am not sure you can really hear me if you are stuck in that place. My prayer is that you listen and wonder if maybe it is true. Look around to see if, maybe just maybe, it is true that there is healing at the end of rehab/recovery and maybe if it is true that God is with you NOW. Consider it. Give it just one or two moments of pondering. Is it possible that God is with you, loving you, and keeping even worse things from you, even now, even in the place where you are? Think-wonder-consider for just a moment, have the things you have been doing to survive kept you from healing in any way? And just one more thought, do you think maybe that God is willing to get you through to the other side and heal you? I think so. I know God wants to help you. You know and I know that recovery and healing is for MOST a process - a road. Please don't forget you are reaching and working toward health, not just survival. God is a GOOD God. He wants you healed. It is the trusting Him into that process that is the very hardest of things.
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When my heart was grieved
and my spirit embittered,
I was senseless and ignorant;
I was a brute beast before you.
Yet I am always with you;
you hold me by my right hand.
You guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will take me into glory.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
Psalms 73:21-24, 26
I know it (everything) is so very hard when you are in pain and hurting. I mean really really really hurting, damaged, dysfunctional, broken, and just a big painful fragmented mess. It is hard to believe that you will survive and harder still to believe that you will have healing.
If I could tell my story, the fullness of it, how I lived as a child of God, helpless and hopeless for too long, would you hear me, would you believe, would you keep fighting, would you be able to see that my faith in my Healer God is NOT some security blanket I wrap around myself to delude myself. That my faith in God is actually what moves me from a life filled with destructive behaviors, thoughts, and attitudes; to a life filled with healing, and habits that grow joy and wholeness.
I could not do it on my own. I needed and still need God. We all do. We have not been left without hope. There is goodness and beauty. God pours it out new everyday. Fight to see it and enjoy it. FIGHT for healing! There is HOPE!! The HOPE is sure. There is redemption. Redemption is more than just some spot in heaven one day. Redemption is for right now–today; to be redeemed in this moment, to be freed/redeemed from all kinds of destruction, to be healed from the pain and wounds, to be freed/redeemed to live life, a life FULL of LIFE, full of joy, healing, and peace beyond our circumstances.
***sigh****
I am not sure you can really hear me if you are stuck in that place. My prayer is that you listen and wonder if maybe it is true. Look around to see if, maybe just maybe, it is true that there is healing at the end of rehab/recovery and maybe if it is true that God is with you NOW. Consider it. Give it just one or two moments of pondering. Is it possible that God is with you, loving you, and keeping even worse things from you, even now, even in the place where you are? Think-wonder-consider for just a moment, have the things you have been doing to survive kept you from healing in any way? And just one more thought, do you think maybe that God is willing to get you through to the other side and heal you? I think so. I know God wants to help you. You know and I know that recovery and healing is for MOST a process - a road. Please don't forget you are reaching and working toward health, not just survival. God is a GOOD God. He wants you healed. It is the trusting Him into that process that is the very hardest of things.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
When my heart was grieved
and my spirit embittered,
I was senseless and ignorant;
I was a brute beast before you.
Yet I am always with you;
you hold me by my right hand.
You guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will take me into glory.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
Psalms 73:21-24, 26
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