Five Minute Friday - Heal

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One word. Five minutes to write about it. This is the idea behind Five Minute Friday and this is today's free-writing post.

 take time to heal

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Time heals all wounds, doesn't it? I don't think so. Not time by itself, anyway. The deep wounds of grief or betrayal may change over time, but healing requires more than just the passing of days or years. 

Broken bones need to be set properly in order to heal. Deep gaping cuts must be carefully cleaned and often stitched. Torn muscles and ligaments require exercises to gradually regain strength. After surgery, incision sites must be cared for to prevent infection. In each case, healing does come in time and with patient care, but setting bones, getting stitches, enduring rehabilitation exercises, and cleaning infections involves help and support from others, and those processes are often painful. Yet necessary for healing.

In the same way, we need help and time for our emotions to heal. If we don't have our emotional wounds cleaned and stitched properly, the infection of bitterness is a very real danger. If our brokenness isn't put back together properly, the 'bones' may fuse together over time, but may be twisted or unstable. If we don't work at rehabilitating our damaged emotions, we may lose the full use of those 'muscles'. 

We do need time to heal, but true healing comes when we trust God with our treatment plan. If you're in the healing process, be patient with yourself, and do the self-care and exercises prescribed to guard against infection and atrophy. And let's be patient with each other, for each of us is in the process of healing somehow.

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care. ~Jerry Cantrell

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. ~Hubert H. Humphrey

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound and closed and healed, done with. ~Harry Crews

Have mercy on me, LORD,

for I am faint;

heal me, LORD,

for my bones are in agony.

~Psalm 6:2~

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If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. ~II Chronicles 7:14

This post is linked at Five Minute Friday for the word prompt "Heal".

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