Trust Me, You Need Recovery

I wish I had a penny for every person who said that they did not need to recover from anything.  If you are breathing, you at the very least need to recover from pride.  There is always something to recover from.

Have you experienced hurt in the past?  It could come from a divorce, loss of a job, a child who parted from their training.  Everyone has hurt that follows them through life.  You have no idea how much this hurt effects you today even though it could be fifty years since it happened.

Have you ever seen the movie Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood?  It is a great movie that even the guys will enjoy.  It is all about a young girl who is trying to deal with the problems in her life and understand herself while discovering more about her mother.  Her mother is not as simple as she thinks.  The young woman has the hurt of being physically hurt by her mother and having feelings of abandonment.  As she learns about her mother, she finds out that her mother suffered from hurt from her mother, father, loss of the love of her heart, the effects of alcohol, and not having a good support system around her.  Each one of them had hurts and without seeking cleansing of the gangrene in their emotional lives, passed the infection onto their families.

We all have them and when they are not dealt with, they fester and begin to eat at our lives.  They effect our marriage relations, the relationships with our children, our work life, and our spiritual growth. 

Think of the areas of your life that you can find no peace.  That is where there is an infection.  It might not be the whole source, but a doctor has to start where they see the infection before digging deeper.