How cool that this video starts with my life verse ... JER 29:11 ... love the HOPE that verse holds ... a reminder that no matter where or how I see myself, he is always aware of what lies ahead, he's not discouraged or un-nerved by things that come my way, or bad decisions I make ... he doesn't stop believing in the one HE created me to be. He still sees the potential ...
This video could very much be my Blog theme song. Most of the difficult days are behind me now, and healing days are still ahead of me, it may take longer than I think it should! Go figure!!
Sometimes I see no changes at all... impatient ... sometimes I wonder if any healing is happening at all. It's usually only when I am looking around at the immediate and the most recent that I see no progress. It's hard to see any changes from that vantage point. But every so often, He gives me a higher and wider perspective - a vantage point that allows me to see the disappointment that's been turned into acceptance, the hurt that's been turned to grace and forgiveness, and the valuable lessons learned not from a life of perfection ... but a life lived --- searching for and finding Him in the rubble, seeing his purpose in the scars ...
Did you ever wonder why God doesn't always allow scars to heal? Sometimes he wants us to remember that healing does come ... and the scar is proof!
I can say with contentment and reassurance today ... so much of the pain I knew only years ago is looking less like the pain I thought I'd never know an end to ... and more like his purpose and character in my life. As strange as it may sound ... I won't pray the scars completely disappear ... because I want to remember what he's done for me.
Less Like Scars
by Sara Groves
It's been a hard year
But I'm climbing out of the rubble
These lessons are hard, Healing changes are subtle
But every day it's...
Less like tearing more like building
Less like captive more like willing
Less like breakdown more like surrender
Less like haunting more like remember
And I feel you here
And you're picking up the pieces
Forever faithful
It seemed out of my hands a bad situation
But you are able
And in your hands the pain and hurt
look less like scars and more like character
Less like a prison a prison more like my room
Less like a casket more like a womb
Less like dying more like transcending
Less like fear, less like an ending
And I feel you here
And you're picking up the pieces
Forever faithful
It seemed out of my hands a bad situation
But you are able
And in your hands the pain and hurt
look less like scars
Just a little while ago
I couldn't feel the power or the hope
I couldn't cope, I couldn't feel a thing
Just a little while back
I was desperate, broken, laid out
Hoping you would come
And I need you
And I want you here
And I feel you...
And I know you're here
And you're picking up the pieces
Forever faithful
It seemed out of my hands a bad situation
But you are able
And in your hands the pain and hurt
look less like scars
And in your hands the pain and hurt
look less like scars
And in your hands the pain and hurt
look less like scars
And more like character
by Sara Groves
It's been a hard year
But I'm climbing out of the rubble
These lessons are hard, Healing changes are subtle
But every day it's...
Less like tearing more like building
Less like captive more like willing
Less like breakdown more like surrender
Less like haunting more like remember
And I feel you here
And you're picking up the pieces
Forever faithful
It seemed out of my hands a bad situation
But you are able
And in your hands the pain and hurt
look less like scars and more like character
Less like a prison a prison more like my room
Less like a casket more like a womb
Less like dying more like transcending
Less like fear, less like an ending
And I feel you here
And you're picking up the pieces
Forever faithful
It seemed out of my hands a bad situation
But you are able
And in your hands the pain and hurt
look less like scars
Just a little while ago
I couldn't feel the power or the hope
I couldn't cope, I couldn't feel a thing
Just a little while back
I was desperate, broken, laid out
Hoping you would come
And I need you
And I want you here
And I feel you...
And I know you're here
And you're picking up the pieces
Forever faithful
It seemed out of my hands a bad situation
But you are able
And in your hands the pain and hurt
look less like scars
And in your hands the pain and hurt
look less like scars
And in your hands the pain and hurt
look less like scars
And more like character
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