Healing Journey

The inner journey is also a healing journey.  I recently catalogued, for myself, some of the transformational markers of this healing journey:

• From personal addictions to serenity and conscious contact with God
• From external esteem to God esteem-- honored and loved in Him
• From external comforts and pleasures to spiritual pleasures and pursuits as primary
• From worldly security to depth of trust in the Person
• From unconscious reactions to events or circumstances to consciousness of wounds and healing of past
• From other-esteem to God-only esteem
• From guilt, shame, and self-hatred to a sense of a loved and beautiful self, filled with the glory of Christ
• From fear of rejection, fear of the future, fear of pain, fear of uncertainty to an abiding peace and rest
• From anxious over-responsibility to a light yoke; joy of living as a child with the Father
• From false self coping mechanisms to the joy and self-honor of true self
• From trying to obtain the transcendental by looking for a greater reality in created things to finding the transcendental in our life with God
• From trying to live with senses that need to be hyper-stimulated to living with senses quietly alive to God first and then in tune with all creation
• From duty and legalistic living to grace loving and passionate living
• From fear of life to love of life
• From trying to protect the good that we have to living vulnerably and freely
• From self-protection to humility and vulnerability
• From fear of pain to open-hearted risking and loving
• From depression to deeply healed, fully alive heart
• From fractured, compartmentalized living to integrated wholeness in Christ
• From admiration of the idols of this world and envy of those who have them to true contentment in the spiritual riches that are abundant
• From external pursuits for happiness that are illusory to true kingdom joy and peace
• From multiple pursuits to a single, passionate pursuit
• From doing activities and projects as the primary focus of life to being as the primary focus
• From scarcity thinking to gratitude and abundance thinking

Comments

[Danae]

Thank you so much for posting this. It has given me hope. It has let me know that it really can happen. Everything you mentioned is what I long for. This articulates my hearts desire.