SEASON OF HEALING

Yes, you are right.  Healing is a big deal to me these days.  I'm slowly healing from my hip replacement but I'm not gonna lie you, it's slow.  I am walking mostly on a cane and 30+ minutes a day in increments  of time up my driveway and back.  They are slow walks, but walks.  I'm take it.

That got me to pondering about healing.  I looked up the word "healing" and Mr. Webster says it's "the process of becoming sound or healthy again".  That led me to look up the word "sound" and he says it means (in the context defined in healing) "in good condition; not damaged, injured, or diseased".  

There are so many seasons in our lives.  If you are a regular reader of this blog, you will know I say that so often, simply because it's the truth.    In thinking of seasons of healing, we immediately go to the physical.  When we are sick, we want to get better.  When we are in recovery from surgery as I am, I want to get better quicker.   It's not a road that is pain free either.  When those we love are sick, we want them better.  I have learned, though, that there are times when our seasons of healing are of the ultimate kind....be it from an incurable disease, an aging disease, you get the idea.  

Often when we experience the seasons of ultimate healing, then we go into a season of grief and need healing from that.  I imagine most of us have experienced this season of grief and the healing involved.  Many say that time heals all things and that is partly true.  I say that the Lord helps us with those kinds of grief healing.  He knows our griefs and our sorrows and He loves us.  Love goes a long way towards that kind of healing.

I thought of healing from anxieties, worry, and stress.  Do you know those kinds of "diseases"?  Boy, I do. Often I mentally let those things eat at me, pull at me, and mess with my mind so much that I have to ask healing for those.   Granted we must do our part by learning to not be anxious, learning to not worry, and learning to not stress.  The scriptures speak of that.  I think a way of healing from these problems is to consult the scriptures.  I might would start with Philippians 4:6,7 and Matthew 11:28-30.  

Sometimes we even need a season of healing from our ego.  I don't know about you but sometimes I think I'm a pretty good person.  And sometimes I am but I don't need to get so high and mighty and prideful that I forget humbleness.  So yes, a season of healing from my ego.  

So yes, seasons of healing are necessary for profitable living.  Think about it.  I'm sure you can come with some healing of your own that you might need.  My list is endless.  Healing for impatience, annoyance, and other mental things like that.  I think healing for these things take the right kind of medicine--love, joy, grace.  I need those doses in abundance.  

There we are, it wasn't exactly the post I thought it would be but one nonetheless.  I will ponder a bit more and in the meantime you consider.....seasons of healing.