The Process Of Healing

Few weeks ago, I accidentally burnt my hand by a hot iron.  My skin turned red straight away and I felt the heat on that part of my skin.  I was very careful with the wound hoping that in future the scar will not be too obvious.  I was advised to put some lotion on it and some suggested me to apply aloe Vera.

During the process of healing, I faced challenges.  I was very careful with the wound.  I made sure that the wound is dry.  Somehow, I was allergic to something which I am not very sure what is that.  I was standing under a tree by the road side one day.  I stood there for quite a while.  When I got back to my office, the wound was swollen and it was very itchy.  The area near the wound also became reddish with some rashes.  After a few hours, the rashes was gone and the sore was gone too.  *Phew*

A few days later, the wound was getting so much better and the dead skins were peeling off.  It was itchy at times and I couldn't help but to scratch it.  The new skin was very fragile, many times I scratched until the new skin peeled and created another wound.

A few more days later, all the dead skins were peeled off completely and the wound became lighter and slowly the colour tone was changing back to my skin colour but with a darker tone.  

When we are hurt emotionally, a wound will appear in our hearts.  If we want to be healed, we need to apply lotion to soothe the wound, to help the wound to heal faster.  The lotion that we need would be forgiveness and the willingness to let go of the hurtful feelings, the sadness and the anger.  During the process of healing our emotional hurts, we face challenges.  Our emotion will be disturbed.  We may be irritable and easily annoyed as we are struggling to let go and to forgive.  During this time, we may create more wounds if we fail to control ourselves.

Some people may give up half way because it is really not an easy task to get our hurts healed.  If fail to persevere, we will not be able to grow stronger in handling the same kind of hurt in future.  We may resent some of the people who offend us the same way.  Resentment will hinder us from seeing and learning more things from people.  To protect ourselves from being hurt, we may avoid people, we may have no confidence in people and this is not going to bring us happy and fulfilled life.  

We have to rely on God all the time.  We have to choose to forgive.  We have to choose to let go.  We have to make the right choice.  So, have you made the right choice to improve or to change your life?  Or do you prefer holding on to the hurts that you are having now?  Well, healing is not equal to forget.  The wound heals, the scar will stay.  We will not be able to forget the hurtful incidents.  However, when the hurt is brought up or mentioned, we will not feel the same.  We will not feel sad like before.  

Every step that you take and are going to take will affect or impact your life now and future- be it good or bad.  A friend firmly said that we will not know if the change will bring us good or bad.  This is what he believes.  As for me, I strongly believe that we will know if the change that we make is gonna bring us good or bad some day.  We sure will.  

 

DO YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

ACT NOW!