Wednesday, September 18, 2019

THE GRACE OF HEALING

"Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint; heal me, LORD, for my bones are in agony.”  (Psalm 6:2 NIV)

In this whole process of seeking healing, how do I find the balance between doing and being?  How do I know when to fight and when to let go?  When does fighting, when does seeking, become control?  When does letting go become passivity or apathy, or worse -- despair?  What is surrender?  What is grace?  Aren't I to use what God has given me -- my intellect, my resourcefulness, my curiosity, my desire for healing and wholeness?  But how and when do those get in the way?… healing is hard work.  It is.  But isn't it also no work at all, because in reality we don't heal ourselves?  We can encourage it, help create an environment for it, but we can't do it.  Yet we are an indispensable part of the process.

This is all very confusing.  I don't know how to make sense of it all. I don't understand.  Perhaps this is where faith comes in.  It carries me through that which I don't understand.  It also assures me that even if I don't "do" the "right" thing or that if I "am" not in the "right" way -- if I am not "being" as I should, whatever that is -- healing is still possible.  That is grace.

-- Jean M. Blomquist in “Wrestling Till Dawn”


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