Wounds and Scars
Last Saturday I helped some friends move and while taking an entertainment center up the steps, I got a splinter in my finger. At the time I could not get it out so I just left it. On Sunday my finger started to hurt a little. By Sunday night it was really hurting. So, I took the splinter out. It was really painless and my finger started to feel better. Today, there is still a little scar and it still hurts a little, but that scar is still there, and probably will be there for about another few days or so.
My finger probably would have been much better if I had taken that splinter out Saturday night and put a bandage on it instead of trying to "tough it out". We have that mentality with life many times. It's better to be tough and not deal with problems thinking they will go away, instead of facing issues and allowing ourselves to heal.
Sunday, January 27, would have marked the 43 birthday of my best friend. Cancer took him away from us three years ago. To this day, I will tear up when I think about him and how much he has missed with my life.
The first year after his death, I still wouldn't talk to anyone about it. I was afraid to, no one knew what I was going through...or so I thought. Granted, not many understood the friendship and what he really meant to me, but the more I was able to talk to people about him, and about how I was feeling, the better things became.
I wrote a poem shortly after his death, and it is framed and sitting beside my bed.
God has held my hand through this time. Earlier that year, I had lost a cousin due to an auto accident, and also lost a friend who took his own life. Over the past nearly four years since the deaths, I have learned how to really live life.
God has a way of helping us go through those rough times. He sends people to stand by us. God sent Rick to help me through a very difficult time, when God called him home, there were friends and family who were there for me. We may not always know why people are there, but when you look back on things, you will begin to understand why these people were brought into your life.
The thing about a physical scar, if you do not put any type of ointment on it and bandage it up, it will never heal. Emotional scars are the same way, if you do not give it the attention it needs, you will never heal.
God did not intend for us to go through life full pain and hurt. Keep your heart and eyes open for people who enter your life. You never know you be there to help that person, who in turn can help you.
As you sit at work or school, look at the people around you. You have been given an opportunity to be the world to someone. You have been given an opportunity to help someone start the road to healing.
There's a saying, "it only takes a spark to get a fire going" and you never know when you are going to be that spark.
Be a friend and help others with their scars...and in the process you will be blessed.
My finger probably would have been much better if I had taken that splinter out Saturday night and put a bandage on it instead of trying to "tough it out". We have that mentality with life many times. It's better to be tough and not deal with problems thinking they will go away, instead of facing issues and allowing ourselves to heal.
Sunday, January 27, would have marked the 43 birthday of my best friend. Cancer took him away from us three years ago. To this day, I will tear up when I think about him and how much he has missed with my life.
The first year after his death, I still wouldn't talk to anyone about it. I was afraid to, no one knew what I was going through...or so I thought. Granted, not many understood the friendship and what he really meant to me, but the more I was able to talk to people about him, and about how I was feeling, the better things became.
I wrote a poem shortly after his death, and it is framed and sitting beside my bed.
God has held my hand through this time. Earlier that year, I had lost a cousin due to an auto accident, and also lost a friend who took his own life. Over the past nearly four years since the deaths, I have learned how to really live life.
God has a way of helping us go through those rough times. He sends people to stand by us. God sent Rick to help me through a very difficult time, when God called him home, there were friends and family who were there for me. We may not always know why people are there, but when you look back on things, you will begin to understand why these people were brought into your life.
The thing about a physical scar, if you do not put any type of ointment on it and bandage it up, it will never heal. Emotional scars are the same way, if you do not give it the attention it needs, you will never heal.
God did not intend for us to go through life full pain and hurt. Keep your heart and eyes open for people who enter your life. You never know you be there to help that person, who in turn can help you.
As you sit at work or school, look at the people around you. You have been given an opportunity to be the world to someone. You have been given an opportunity to help someone start the road to healing.
There's a saying, "it only takes a spark to get a fire going" and you never know when you are going to be that spark.
Be a friend and help others with their scars...and in the process you will be blessed.
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