Wounded Healer

26 September 2012

My soul is weary and overwhelmed with no apparent reason.  The expectations of ones looking at me is that I should be fully charged and ready to go.  (Maybe those are my expectations!)  Volunteering, cooking, cleaning, lifting... all are a bit challenging and still exhausting.  It's difficult to explain how raw the scraping of those inner organs creates many open sores needing to heal internally.

Inside wounds are like that, aren't they.  From the outside, the body can look put together, capable, ready to run your socks off, charge on ahead.  However, on the inside, things are still healing.  We often heal from the inside out.  Simply reaching for a bowl can create a zinging reminder that we aren't done healing inside.  Doubled over pain is saved for the extremely stupid stuff I do periodically.

All of us are healing in one way or another.  Healing from an emotional wound, healing from an action we regret, healing from being hurt or violated intentionally even years ago.  Life means seeking healing and wholeness by One who rose from the grave with wounds on His hands and feet...He is the One who walks with us still in the Spirit...He walks as a Wounded Healer.

Henri Nouwen wrote a book called, "Wounded Healer" a few years ago.  The writer shares how we each are wounded healers in the world.  Walking together in the Spirit of Christ, may we touch the healing heart of Christ as he reaches out and heals out deepest pain.  Let yourself heal.  Give it time.  Receive the love that changes everything.