The past couple of months have seen me walk through a lot of tough times. A counselor has been helping me along the way, and I am so grateful for the way God is using her in my life. We have had some intense sessions digging up and working through things from the past, and especially hurts that have left some deep wounds. But, we are making progress and I can see the benefits coming from it, although the process is hard and painful.
A picture kept coming to me off ripping off band-aids, and I guess that's what I feel I have been doing. When we hurt ourselves we put a band-aid on it to protect it from any more harm, to stop things getting in there, and to avoid infection. But the fact of the matter remains, that at some point the bandaids need to come off, and the sore needs to be exposed to air in order to bring healing.
It seems I had a lot of band-aids that had been stuck down for a long time. In some way it was protecting those wounds from more harm, but it has only been through ripping them off the last few weeks, that real healing is taking place.
