9:19 PM, Friday, September 26, 2008
Could this have happened more perfectly?
I love how God shows me things. I am reading a book called "Come Closer" by Jane Rubietta. I just finished having a conversation with someone about trust in relationships and I sign off facebook and open the book and it was on the chapter of "Come for healing" It starts immediately by saying this:
"It felt like a body cast for the soul. Frozen, unable to reach forward or reach out, my heart immobilized by years of not trusting, not feeling, not talking. I could not even muster the strength to retrain myself to love, to forgive, to even care."
It then goes into the chapter a bit and I came along this that made my heart feel weird:
"Somehow the world imprinted on my frontal lobes the messages that life isn't safe and neither are relationships. Keeping my mouth quiet substituted for safety, though my moodiness damaged others. Eventually the anger burst through any self-imposed gag order, burning myself and others on blast off.
BUT our brains can be retrained. We do not have a God who is powerless over our concerns. Our God raised Jesus from the dead. Surely He can do the same for us in our various stages of unhealing and paralysis."
"I dammed the tears pressing against my eyes as I looked around the table, heard the stories, and tasted honesty. "I'm not okay. I'm really pretty messed up. But that's okay because you are too. And we're together in this."
♥
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