Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. Unedited. The prompt this week is … Heal.
I have sat multiple times with family members and heard the news of a challenging diagnosis. Hearing the process of surgery and then treatment which would follow, the question would go through my mind: Would this heal them?
Would they be whole again?
The healing process was not easy, the treatment often brought more difficulties and hurdles to be crossed.
We had to push forward, and hope healing would come.
This past week, I have wondered once again. How do these families and communities find healing after the horrific tragedy they have experienced? How do they move forward? Can healing even occur? How do they go through the pain of such loss and horror, the depths to which I cannot even fathom.
“But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings. And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture.” (Malachi 4:2, NLT)
Therein lies the hope, the way forward, the path to healing.
The Sun of Righteousness will rise. With righteousness comes justice. And with the rising, the sun will bring healing.
And so we pray for the Sun of Righteousness to rise.
Come, Lord Jesus, Come.
Rise and bring healing.
Photo taken on vacation in 2018 – Moultonborough, New Hampshire.
Today I may be joining …
If we could only let them heal,
that one day life goes on!
But here’s the rub and here’s the deal,
each grieving parent is a pawn
of the grasping public men
devoid of decency and vision,
who will use crisis (again!)
to improve position.
They care not for falling tears,
but sound-bite possibility
to inflame a voter’s fears
that will give them more ability
to keep their status and their power
for one more day, for one more hour.
Andrew, may God silence the tongues and let these families heal.
Amen
We do have hope and can encourage each other. Love the verse you chose from Malachi.
Walking with family members with challenging diagnosis is very stretching, but a gift of love too. With the school shooting in mind, you asked if healing could occur, so I wanted to recommend a book, Forgiven ”“ The Amish School Shooting, a Mother’s Love, and a Story of Remarkable Grace. By Terri Roberts and Jeanette Windle. Narrated by Pamela Klein. It is one of the best books on forgiveness I’ve read/listened to, Joanne.
It is so hard to sit with family members facing a challenging diagnosis, but, like Lisa Blair said, it’s an act of selfless love too.
Amen. I can only imagine what those families are going through. May God grant grace and healing.
Joanne, sometimes healing seems just a dream, and we don’t always receive the healing we pray for. But God is our Healer, He knows the deepest needs and the exact healing we need. No situation is beyond the healing hand of God’s grace.
I praise Him that no matter what happens He is still on His Throne, He redeems everything for our good and His glory, and ultimately He brings the justice and healing we cannot yet see.