Tag: healing
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The Illusion of Going Back: Why Forward Is the Only Direction That Matters
I hear people say it all the time. “I want to go back to when things were simpler.” “I wish life could just go back to the way it was.” “If only I could hit rewind.” It is a common human instinct—nostalgia wrapped in the comfort of familiar territory. When the wilderness gets tough, human…
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Divine Shelter: When Letting Go Is God’s Protection
We have to be still for a moment and pay attention to what God is showing us about where we stand. And I am saying this from experience. When love blinds us, we tend to romanticize potential. We make excuses for patterns God has already exposed, holding tight to who we hope someone will become…
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Healing Requires Consent
There is an uncomfortable truth in trying to rescue people: not everyone wants to be rescued. There is a striking detail in the Gospel of John that is easy to skim over. Jesus approaches a man who has been disabled for 38 years, sitting by the Pool of Bethesda, and asks him a startling question:…
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When Love Rewrites Our Labels
We are experts at building walls out of things that were meant to protect us. In the first century, a man named Matthew built a wall out of coins. As a Jewish tax collector working for the Roman Empire, he traded his community, his religious standing, and his family for financial security. The outside world…
