Emotional Healing

This article was really good.

It's got me asking some questions... How do we heal from the emotional wounds we've experienced over the course of our lives? Can we heal ourselves through self-help books and positive thinking or something? I tend to lean towards the fact we don't really have that ability, otherwise, I think there'd be a lot more whole, mended people walking around. I mostly see people limping along, doing their best to make it by. They've gotten good at keeping their pain in the dark corners and avoiding situations that might expose the scars and pain. I can see it others, because I know it in my own heart...

So how do we receive healing? It seems like healing is not something we do for ourselves, but something we receive from someone who has the ability to fix what's been broken, to find what's been lost. There are deep emotional scars that are still influencing the way I live on a daily basis. Whether it is avoiding conflict or insecurity over what I look like, I know that there is deep healing that needs to take place. And I also know that Jesus came for just that: to bind up the broken-hearted, to set the captives free, to seek and to save that which was lost.

Maybe healing starts with surrendering our pride and self-reliance, and being humble, bold and honest in our response to Jesus, who is asking us the same question He asked a blind man, in the book of Mark, chapter 10:

"What do you want me to do for you?"

Jesus, I want my heart to be fixed, healed, comforted, restored, strengthened...