Healing is never easy.
Healing is not for wimps.
Just as a broken bone takes time to mend, it takes time for a wounded heart to heal.
Really, more often than not, it takes longer for the heart to take the journey of reconciliation.
And sometimes, the healing, the mending, and the restoration of peace and sanity may come while reconciliation never does.
Forgiveness is for the heart to heal and for the soul to be freed.
Forgiveness may not bring the reconciliation that was once hoped for or demanded.
For some things can be so damaged, the body cannot be recovered.
For some things can be so destroyed, the explosion left nothing but the crater that had already been formed.
For some things can be lost forever.
Never demand harmony when you’ve caused the destruction.
Never demand compromise when you were the source of the wound.
These are hard words to receive and much harder ones to actually live out.
But we all live by grace, and by grace we go forward.
So, forgive again and again.
Repent as needed.
Heal over and over.
And leave the rest up to the Creator of your soul.
For He knows all, and He will bring healing that soothes the soul and brings redemption.
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.
Jeremiah 7:14
Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.
Jeremiah 33:6
He who covers his sins will not prosper,
Proverbs 28:13
But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
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