You were strong enough to survive the real trauma. You’re strong enough to let God bring you through the healing too.
#TheMercifulScar
Many of us wear our trauma like a wrap. Tightly wound, seemingly to protect us from more hurt, wound, pain.
The wrapping instead begins to strangle our emotions, keeping the wounds from healing, slowly sucking the vitality out of our lives.
But you survived.
The other mechanism you used, self protection, was never designed for long term use. It is meant to be used to survive the trauma at hand, and then we need to take the situation to God. For Him to heal us, help us forgive, to find release in speaking the truth, and restore us. To be made whole again, left only with the scars.
Many of us stay in that wrapped protective state way too long, because we fail to recognize the first step.
We cannot be healed until we let go.
As someone who has had her fair, or unfair, share of hard knocks, I get it.
It is hard work unraveling the tight wrapping that has been holding us together.
The freedom, however, on the other side, is so worth it.
If you are tired of staying in that holding place between your wounding and His healing, you must take the step towards God.
Removing your need to control what will happen next in a leap of faith.
His merciful arms are waiting to catch you, hold you up, comfort you, guide you.
Open wounds become scars that fade in their intensity over time once God heals them.
If you survived the wounding, you will survive their healing.
From the loving hands waiting for you to come.
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KARLA LEES @hopenHispresenz 