I'll be back as soon as I'm back!
A
couple of days ago my daughter and I were in the kitchen making breakfast when
she decided to go the bathroom. She looked at me and said, "I'll be back
in a min...well actually, I'll be back as soon as I'm back!"
I
chuckled at her cute comment, but it reminded me something I've read or heard a
lot lately in various places. "It takes as long as it takes” is a
statement that has really hit me over the past several months.
I
have the honor of working with women from all over the world who are in the
process of healing from their abortion experiences. Many of these women, and a
lot of my friends, are also healing from other traumatic experiences and
heartbreaking situations. Each and every one wishes the healing would hurry up
and happen already. Many of them feel pressure from their spouses or family
members to quickly heal and move on.
I’ve
personally tried to rush my own healing, as well. Why is that? Why do we feel
the need to quickly push past the things that hurt us the most? Maybe its
because we don’t feel like the best versions of ourselves while we’re healing,
but the truth is, the healing journey is necessary for us to truly be ourselves
again.
Soloman wrote these words and is known to be the
wisest man in the world. So, I think its important for us to really ponder
these verses and take to heart what they say about even the difficult moments of
our lives. There is a time for the beautiful parts of life, but there is also a
time for the hard parts.
Verse 11 says, "Yet God has made everything
beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but
even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to
end."
We cannot see all that God is doing in our lives
or understand why He allows us to experience certain things, but we can know
that He is sovereign and trustworthy. I believe the painful moments and the
healing that needs to occur after them play a particularly important role in
helping us become the people He created us to be.
Once we begin the healing journeys we all inevitably
need to go on, it’s important to remember that healing “takes as long as it
takes.” Sometimes it will be a short season, other times it may take many
years. In order to truly heal and see God’s full restoration, we mustn’t rush the
process but instead we must trust the One who will carry us through the
process.
When we feel pressured to move quickly on the path
toward healing, we may need to look at ourselves in the mirror, or maybe at
those pressuring us, and say, “I’ll be back when I’m back because healing takes
as long as it takes.”
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