REMINDER OF THE YEAR

The gift of salvation does not promise the healing of your heart.  The knowledge of who God is does not promise that you will become a whole person.  Acting and doing all the "right" things in love and in the name of Jesus does NOT promise transformation.  I think most of us have a misconception that when we have attained these things.. salvation, knowledge, righteousness, and many more that we will also obtain our healing of our hurts and our wholeness as men and women of God.  Your relationship with your Father with Jesus is "the way" to healing... In Him you will find a place where you want to go back and empty all your baggage and say.. please Daddy this is what happened and I need you to make this right... I need you to teach me to love the person that did this to me.. teach me how to forgive them.. forgive me for allowing "whatever" to resinate into my being... allowing "those things" to dangle in the back of my mind.  Those memories to slightly alter my thinking... and Daddy while i'm here i'm gonna let you know exactly how all this has made me feel... like when it first happened.. whether sad or angry or bitter or hard.. i'm gonna let it all out.. I'm gonna feel it until you take it and I don't feel that way anymore.  I need you to take care of it.. I need you to heal my heart.  I need you to be my protector and my daddy for real.  Not just in thought, but for real.  I need you to show me the truth and show me where you were when my life was going down... to the simplest sensitive moments to the the times i felt completely neglected , or abandoned, or unloved.  This is where HEALING is found.. not just in having prayer and reading the word every morning and evening but in actual communion... when you say ... Lord show me what I need to do to be whole to be healed to not hurt.  I'm amazed at how He always meets me wherever i am in this.  Ready to show that he is my protector my daddy.  That he will take care of the past things.. and he is readily taking care of me now.  Just a reminder that it's not just about going to church and saying you love Jesus or even knowing scripture or saying your prayers.. but it's within your communion that you will find the richness of life your soul longs for.  -khristen