Stuffing

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Wounds

Some wounds are close to the surface. One of my co-workers told me many of her wounds and I had only been working there a few days. Not to say that her wounds are surface wounds as they aren't. They are deep life-changing wounds.

There is another woman that I work with- she's a Christian and for the most part is secure and together but there have been a couple of times that I caught her off guard and saw a wound through her actions. The wound is deep as well, but maybe not as fresh.

Who doesn't have wounds?

The hole in the Earth spewing black oil into our clean water could be a picture of our wounds.

I can see mine pretty plainly. I don't know how obvious they are to others. Some days I don't notice them, but some days they feel like they are ripped apart and I am dragging them around. A real weight they can be. Some days I think that God is healing them. Some days I rip them open worse than they used to be.

Shells

Sometimes the wounds require construct of shells.
How are you? Fine, everything is fine.
The shells serve a variety of purposes. They prevent others from getting in an irritating the wounds. They prevent others from getting any infections that come with the wounds. Keeps them from getting dirty. But the shells also prevent people from getting in and putting healing salve on the wounds.

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Jared talked today about the healing that comes from community. Coincidentally, this blog post talks about living wide open and the vulnerability and risk that comes with it.

It is a scary thing to be vulnerable. It is difficult to even know where to start. It is difficult to see how the healing might come. It is difficult to see how there wouldn't be more pain.

But God doesn't see things the same way that we do. We know His way and his heart for us is always Good even when it doesn't seem like it.

When I want to shut the door, put your foot in it and hold it open.

posted by Aphra @ 5/16/2010 05:54:00 PM