Quotes about Healing

If we are going to be true to ourselves, we'd better make sure we are being true to our most surrendered, healed, and healthy selves, the ones God made us to be.

Numb souls are never growing souls.

Pain is the sensation that indicates a transformation is needed.

felt stuck with a suffocating sense of wanting to feel better but not knowing how. My brain has such a hard time overriding my heart sometimes. One rejection after another did quite a number on my heart. And each new rejection didn't just add hurt; it multiplied the pain that was already there. That accumulation created a dark feeling of hopeless defeat.

Bitterness, resentment, and anger have no place in a heart as beautiful as yours.

From that cracked-open-heart place, a God-breathed strength will rise. Rise.

God is who He says He is, and He will do what He says He will do. But to partner with Him in His work of transformation in our lives, we must seek Him with all our hearts. It's our choice whether we stay stuck in our hurt or get renewed in our hearts.

People can't fix from the outside a perspective that needs to be rewired on the inside. Only the Lord can do that.

And the gaping hole left behind is in some ways worse than death. If their absence was caused by death, you would grieve their loss. But when their absence is caused by rejection, you not only grieve their loss but you also have to wrestle through the fact that they wanted this.

If things are ever going to get better, we have to acknowledge our underbellies that fuel our unglued reactions.

It's so much healthier to be brave enough to go your separate ways than to keep stuffing and drown in a sea of bitterness.

All I have to do is stand at the gravesite of my sister who died way too young and in way too much pain to be reminded that none of this is easy or tidy. Some things won't be fixed on this side of eternity; they just have to be walked through.