Archive for Emotional Healing
The Validation of a Human Heart
Posted by: | CommentsWhat does it mean for someone to validate your heart?
I want to define “heart” as the part of us we might call our soul. Our soul is often defined as our mind, will, and emotions. Here is more of what the dictionary renders as a definition of soul:
the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body; the emotional part of human nature; the seat of the feelings or sentiments; the animating principle; the essential element or part of something
So what I am asking you is, “What does it mean for someone to give value to your feelings, thoughts, and actions?”
Value – relative worth, merit, or importance
I looked the word “validate” up in the dictionary and found this definition:
to make valid; substantiate; confirm
I was thinking recently of how someone had deeply validated my heart and the unexpected way that those simple words had impacted me. I realized that I had a hunger to be validated – substantiated – confirmed in my feelings, thoughts, and actions. As I meditated on this, I had a subtle feeling that God was teaching me, not only about myself, but about humanity as a whole.
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This is a Call
Posted by: | CommentsOne of my spiritual daughters, Song, asked me to listen to this song by a group called Thousand Foot Krutch. Wow, how challenging are the words and the message!
She fooled all of her friends into thinking she’s so strong,
but she still sleeps with her light on,
and she acts like
It’s all right on, as she smiles again her mother lies there sick with cancer,
and her friends don’t understand her,
she’s a question without answers,
who feels like falling apart.
She knows, she’s so much more than worthless,
but she needs to find her purpose,
she wonders what she did to deserve this and..
[Chorus:]
She’s calling out to you, this is a call; this is a call out,
‘Cause everytime I fall down, I reach out to you,
and I’m losing all control now, and my hazard signs are all out,
I’m asking you, to show me what this life is all about.
He tells everyone a story,
because he thinks his life is boring,
and he fights
so you won’t ignore him,
because that’s his biggest fear,
and he cries,
but you’ll rarely see him do it.
He loves, but he’s scared to use it.
So he hides behind the music, ’cause he likes it that way.
He knows,
He’s so much more than worthless,
he needs to find the surface,
because he’s starting to get nervous.
[Chorus]
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The Silence of God
Posted by: | CommentsDon’t you love it when God makes things so clear that you have no doubt what He is saying to you? Direction is sure. We all love it when as we say, “There is the handwriting on the wall.” Although I might point out that the only time in Scripture I remember Him doing that was when some heavy duty judgment was about to fall!
Yet how many times do we pray and seek God and still don’t really have a definite sense of what He is saying? We know the Word says, “My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me.” It also says, “I will guide you with my eye.”
So the voice of God. What does it sound like? Well, we know about the still, small voice. Ever wondered about the intensity of the Psalms of David as he spoke about God’s voice? David truly was a friend of God who had wrestled with God over his frequent silence and David could write about the untamable voice of God that comes in ways we haven’t imagined before.
Psalms 29
3 The voice of the Lord is over the waters;
The God of glory thunders;
The Lord is over many waters.
4 The voice of the Lord is powerful;
The voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
5 The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars,
Yes, the Lord splinters the cedars of Lebanon.
6 He makes them also skip like a calf,
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Embracing Seasons
Posted by: | CommentsToday I feel fall beginning. As I sit outside in the early morning; it is cool – very cool. I hear a woodpecker in the distance hammering away at a tree. I see a squirrel jump from branch to branch. Crickets are still singing. I breathe in the experience. The first whispers of fall.
Yet, I know that following fall is winter. And winter means death. Fall is the beginning of a season of death. What spring birthed and summer boasted of, fall now begins to kill. Less daylight means less growth and eventually the advent of winter and then death. The death of beautiful flowers and green leaves. Cool becomes cold. Refreshing winds become bitter winds. The welcoming arms of nature will eventually motion for me to stay inside to avoid the inevitable coming of death.
In the natural, I enjoy the change of seasons. I anticipate the upcoming changes. I prepare for the season. I know they will come – one after another – year after year. Birth, growth, dying, and death. And I find that they also come in the spiritual. Yet, I often don’t anticipate their arrival very well. Many times I’m not prepared. But they come anyway.
The dreams of my heart are subject to the seasons, too. Some of them have lain dormant for years. Then something springlike happens and summer comes. The dream lives. It grows. It shows forth its beauty. I take satisfaction in the glory of the beautiful dream’s reality. Suddenly, the air cools. I didn’t expect it. I try to adjust to the changes. Then my dream is met with death – cold and harsh – unforgivingly bitter. I try my best to avoid the cold reality. But the season rushes on without my permission. I just wish it to be over. But the winter is so long. Day after day without any hope of new life. No hope of resurrection. No signs of beautiful flowers. No green sprouts on the trees.
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Affliction
Posted by: | CommentsThis entry is taken from Spurgeon’s Daily Devotional.
“Wherefore hast Thou afflicted Thy servant?”
Numbers 11:11
Our heavenly Father sends us frequent troubles to try our faith. If our faith be worth anything, it will stand the test. Gilt is afraid of fire, but gold is not: the paste gem dreads to be touched by the diamond, but the true jewel fears no test. It is a poor faith which can only trust God when friends are true, the body full of health, and the business profitable; but that is true faith which holds by the Lord’s faithfulness when friends are gone, when the body is sick, when spirits are depressed, and the light of our Father’s countenance is hidden. A faith which can say, in the direst trouble, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him,” is heaven-born faith. The Lord afflicts His servants to glorify Himself, for He is greatly glorified in the graces of His people, which are His own handiwork. When “tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope,” the Lord is honoured by these growing virtues. We should never know the music of the harp if the strings were left untouched; nor enjoy the juice of the grape if it were not trodden in the winepress; nor discover the sweet perfume of cinnamon if it were not pressed and beaten; nor feel the warmth of fire if the coals were not utterly consumed. The wisdom and power of the great Workman are discovered by the trials through which His vessels of mercy are permitted to pass. Present afflictions tend also to heighten future joy. There must be shades in the picture to bring out the beauty of the lights. Could we be so supremely blessed in heaven, if we had not known the curse of sin and the sorrow of earth? Will not peace be sweeter after conflict, and rest more welcome after toil? Will not the recollection of past sufferings enhance the bliss of the glorified? There are many other comfortable answers to the question with which we opened our brief meditation, let us muse upon it all day long.
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