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Healing for wounded relationships (2)
'I HAVE HEARD YOUR PRAYER AND SEEN YOUR TEARS; I WILL HEAL YOU.' 2 KINGS 20:5
Lots of animals when they're hurt and bleeding will lick their wounds. In a funny kind of way we can do the same. We get all introverted and focus over and over again one the pain we feel. Well it might work for dogs and cats but not for you and me! Healing involves three things that you can't do on your own:
1) Talking. Find a trustworthy person and get the pain out in words. It will help you get over the anger and the blame and the confusion
2) Sharing. A problem shared is a problem halved, right? When nobody knows how you feel the hurt is made worse by loneliness and isolation. Don't let that happen
3) Acceptance. If the person who hurt you apologises and asks for forgiveness don't reject it - accept it! Yes, maybe you do want them to feel as bad as you do but that just brings twice as much hurt into a world that's got too much already. Many years ago a broken King cried out to God from the bottom of his heart. God replied graciously saying, 'I have heard your prayers and seen your tears; I will heal you,' That's a word for you too today, if you dare to believe that the God who healed back then is still in the healing business today. Do you?
written by Bob Gass
