Healing Comes In Its Own Time

I’ve lived with invisible chronic disease for a decade.

From the outside looking in, you’d hardly know that I am often in great pain.  I make daily choices about what I will do and what I won’t do based on what I can do and what my body refuses to do.

I take medication.  I do all the things I’m supposed to do to help my body heal.

But I cannot MAKE the healing happen.

No matter how hard I wish it were different, no matter how carefully I manage my treatment, healing comes (or doesn’t) in its own time.

I’m pretty sure that most people have experienced something similar if they’ve broken a bone or had a bad bout of bronchitis or pneumonia.

Other than following the advice of your doctor and taking your meds on time, resting and eating well, there’s not much you can do to force your body to get well.

A broken heart is just the same.

All I can do is place myself in the path of healing.  I can feed my soul with truth and drink living water from God’s Word.

I can lean in and rest in the promise that Jesus will redeem and restore.

I can do the work that grief requires.

And working on healing takes energy, effort and time–lots and lots of TIME.

I cannot hurry the healing.

Please understand that as inconvenient, uncomfortable and disconcerting it may be for YOU, it is immeasureably more so for ME.

Please be patient with my heart.

I’m really trying.

grief is love unfinished

 

 

Author: Melanie

I am a shepherd, wife and mother of four amazing children, three that walk the earth with me and one who lives with Jesus. This is a record of my grief journey and a look into the life I didn't choose. If you are interested in joining a community of bereaved parents leaning on the promises of God in Christ, please like the public Facebook page, "Heartache and Hope: Life After Losing a Child" and join the conversation.

6 thoughts on “Healing Comes In Its Own Time”

  1. I love all your posts, but I really love this one. Comparing physical healing to healing from loss is such a good way to explain grief to someone who has never lost a child.
    These words especially touched me: “All I can do is place myself in the path of healing. I can feed my soul with truth and drink living water from God’s Word. I can lean in and rest in the promise that Jesus will redeem and restore”. Thank you for sharing them!

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  4. I suffer from chronic pain and fatigue and when my son, Seth, went to Heaven it became so much worse. Healing is slow, but it will come, if not on this earth, then in Heaven! I pray God uses me where I am, even though I think it’s impossible to use me, I know that with God, all things are possible!

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  6. Well said. I have chronic health problems too. Grief is chronic just health problems. Healing and recovery is slow and difficult. They all get better but never go away.

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