Cleaning Wounds:

Cleaning a wound is not easy or free of pain. It actually often feels better in the moment to allow for the cut to sit and fester; hoping it will just take care of itself over time. The human body and the human spirit are two of the most restorable things that you will find in all of creation. In my time traveling the world though, I saw many people whose bodies had healed but they were left with a limp because the bone was never set correctly, or a small mountain of tissue on a wrist inhibited full movement due to the infectious growth that had gone untreated. Our spirits will often heal the best that they can without being set, or cleaned; but will it now try and enjoy the beauty of life inhibited by unhealthy scarring, or effort much harder while trying to run with a limp, continuing to avoid what may once again be a painful leap. We must allow our spirit, not unlike our physical bodies, to go through the pain of being set when broken, or cleaned out when torn; no matter how painful in the moment; to once again be as close to fully healed as possible. We are made to be whole and to continually find that whole-ness. But how? How do we search the depths of ourselves and find ourselves once again, whole, if we choose to believe that we alone hold the ability to reconcile the damage that has been done. These are questions that I have been asking myself as I continue to daily find strength and stability in the framework of Christ. I don't even understand that as I type this; I don't understand how brokenness can become whole again. It is a complete miracle by all accounts. I must say that my faith is founded on complete redemption of a Father who loves me dearly and who will over time, set my broken spirit and clean my dirty wounds, and when my spirit shall once again be trampled and downtrodden, He will set me straight with the comforting words, "Do you really trust that I am The Redeemer who will continue take all of your brokenness and make it new?"

I hold fast to these words from 1 Corinthians 1:18. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.