Everything you think you need from God to be whole and enough
Everything you cry out to have
Everything you beg to be fixed, repaired and saved
Everything you think you can’t do
Everything you were proud of that was snatched from you and dashed into a thousand pieces
Everything that bleeds and aches, and which you plead with Him to heal
All your wounds, shame, lack, pain, sin, failure, loss and want
Will be the very things you reach for to heal in others
What fills your “windscreen” now, what seems impossible to ignore, what pains you so much to acknowledge and admit, what you’re learning to forgive yourself for
Will be the view you seek to create perspective for
Will be the shame you seek to soothe
Will be the hurt you long to relieve
Will be the lesson you burn to teach
For all the rest of His loved ones
Who are being hurt now, or who are yet to be hurt, or who are hurting others
And who will be just where you are, right now
Or are already seeking a healer, a teacher, a mother, father or friend.
You’ve believed your joy will come when this is over
When you get everything you’ve been praying and longing for
But your joy will come when you understand how this has made you truly see others pain, and not just your own
And when you realise you can help, and heal and make whole because
You can say “I know, me too”
Because this is love. And this is everything.
Blessings,
JO xxx