are from where you might want to be, I believe it is a gift to be able to recognize healing as it comes. know you did( or are doing) all you can, even if you can see now how it could be better or different.
So whether you’ re thinking, I see how far I have to go, or you’ re thinking, Wow, Jesus has already brought me so much healing— can I say something that might, perhaps, be a little hard to hear?
As you heal, you must be nice to yourself on this journey. You can’ t bully yourself better or shame yourself free, hoping that condemnation somehow brings healing. It won’ t.
You have to forgive yourself for not being more when you were just trying to make it. Perhaps that was years ago, or perhaps that’ s how you feel right now. You have to stop being so hard on yourself for needing the Lord’ s help in those( or these) moments. You have to stop being disappointed in yourself when you
I think that’ s one of the most heartbreaking things we do. We don’ t give ourselves grace for all we have endured or what we’ re presently walking through, yet no one knows better than we do how hard it is to be us. Clearly struggling and in need of love and support, we are the first to say to ourselves,“ Just get over it. Why are you this way?”
That’ s not the way the Lord speaks to us. It’ s not how He feels about our need for Him. I just want you to picture for a moment the Lord in front of you, taking your face in His hands, locking eyes with you, and saying,“ Peace.”
Peace over your past. Peace over your present. Peace over your future.
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