Together We Think

I have decided to drop the day count from my posts, because I am not sure how many days I will need for this journey and in many respects it will be every day for the rest of my life.

It would be great to say that I am finally healed and in some ways I know I will get there, but in many other way’s true healing won’t come until my life is through because I live in a broken world. A couple weeks ago I called my counselor to talk since I was having a particularly challenging day. My frustrated question to her was, “Am I ever going to get past this? Am I ever going to heal?’!! Her wise response was, “Do you want the good news, or the bad news?”

Of course I wanted the good news first! She said, “The good news is that you are healing now and will continue to. The bad news is, you will never fully heal in this life because deep down inside what you are longing for is to be home, and this world isn’t home.”

As I left our conversation that day, I was struck by that stark reality. As much as we want to be healed and as much as we can be if we are willing to do the hard work of forgiveness, patience, love, etc… the reality in all of our lives is that we will always deal with the brokenness of this world…there will always be a nagging void…we will always wrestle with some broken part of who we are until one day we walk into the arms of our Heavenly Father’s “Well done!” Until then, we continue growing, learning, challenging ourselves and loving others so that we can mature and heal as much as possible.

Depending on how you look at this thought, it could be encouraging or discouraging. I hope you take it as encouraging! Just to know that one day everything will be healed…everything will be as it should be. In the meantime, we get to lean on the Lord and each other to grow, love, heal and live life to it’s fullest in this beautiful mess that is our life in the world!