Thursday
He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds. Psalms 147:3
Let grief heal you and not hurt you. The same principle applies to grief as it does to many other issues in life, which is: deal with it now and it will make things much easier later. Example: Program speed dials in to your phone and it is easier to dial, later. Another example: hang the clothes up out of the dryer and you don’t have to iron them, later. Grief: don’t hold it back now, let it do what it needs to do instead of dealing with a gaping, oozing 20 year old wound, later.
Not allowing the wound to heal naturally only prolongs the healing, much like a real physical injury. If you don’t allow the wound to mend the way it is supposed to, it will make the actual healing more painful and drawn out.
Even though it’s not fun to stop life “as you know it” and let the injury heal, you have to do it, with God’s help. It’s only after the healing/grieving process is complete that you can define your new normal. Waiting will make it much, much harder and it will not be worth the relational causalities along the way.
Daily decisions must be made to allow yourself to process the hurt. Cry, hit the pillow, journal, pray, talk, and then do it all again, as many times as it takes. Get it out. Cry out to God. He will comfort you, but you must be listening to Him and allowing Him to be there for you.
God, please, help me to get my grief out , where it should be so it doesn’t build up inside of me. Allow my pain to come out in the pillow, the phone, the journal anywhere it can come out. Thank You for helping me with this process.
