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Scars … or Wounds?
By Jeremy | April 9, 2007
He trusted her. That's what little brothers do, so when his eight year old sister and her friend called him into a field, four year old Eric went. There he entered a world without boundaries. Beginning that afternoon, for the next six or seven years his sister and her friends touched him, made him touch them, violated him.A couple of years ago evangelist Eric Gorman allowed me to share his story of sexual abuse and healing in "Things We Don't Talk About." This Easter weekend, I reflected on his testimony along with the Palm Sunday Miracle and others as I considered past wounds in my own life. Left untreated, wounds can become infected and cause otherwise healthy people to rot away. But when allowed to heal properly, wounds transform into scars that serve as reminders that what could have killed us didn't. Sometimes, proper healing requires the precision of a surgeon's scalpel or the chill of an ice pack or the sting of stitches or staples. But because we live in a culture that prides itself on appearances -- however phony and shallow -- and regards scars as unseemly or ugly, instead we try to mask our wounds and remove any indication of scarring. My prayer this Easter was that the wounds in my life would heal so thoroughly that the scars would serve others in the same way the resurrected Christ's scars moved his disciples past fear to wholeness.
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