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Step Toward Healing

StepForwardHealing does not come by ignoring wounds.  TIME does NOT heal ALL wounds.  I know a man in his sixties who continually rehearses his abusive childhood.  Some of the laws he lives by are actually memorials to those past injustices! Healing of the soul is almost always a process.  Believe it or not, the first step toward healing is grieving.  We invest TIME in relationships.  We invest SWEAT in our labors.  We invest HOPE in our plans.   Investment is God’s principle of seed time and harvest.  Built into sowing is the expectation of harvest; so grief is unavoidable when our efforts end in disappointment or loss.  Grief is a necessary part of the healing process because we need to cry and release the inner pain that medicine cannot touch. 
(This is the third excerpt from Kathy’s article “Healing The Parts To Be Whole“ which was published in SEEC Magazine [Marty and Kathy’s ministry magazine]. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.)