I recently came across the word Cicatrize in a spelling bee contest.....Ok I was probably bored but I pretty much learned a lot of words I can't remember. Anyway the meaning of the word is: To heal by forming a scar....It immediately impressed on my mind the many hurtful experiences we all may go through and how important it is to allow these wounds to cicatrize.
Healing is definitely not an easy thing to do....it is truly a painful experience that if not allowed to complete its process, leaves us half baked, and not able to accomplish what we should be doing.
Healing is like peeling away the many layers of hurt and pain and exposing them to a salve or balm that painfully disinfects every festering wound. It's a process that needs a beginning and end, a willingness to endure those vulnerable, exposing moments that only lead to freedom amd tears....healing is the deliberate choice to recognise the weakness of our humanity, a reaching out to a greater being, a holy untainted God who knows only too well the meaning of deep hurt and pain.
So when the tears come, let them flow, for the tides will change and not long after, you'll find a smile crack through the storm...let the tears that melt away the hardness flow, washing away every false sense of perfection allowing a perfect God to step in and mould you once again. Leave the nights be dark, let the haunting haunt...let it rage and roar...but in your heart know this one thing: It is but a season, a moment and then smile, knowing that seasons change.
