“The best way to bring healing to the soul is to let the Spirit of God work in our mental symbols, memories, and imagination. . . . Our imagination gives us access to our most painful, anxious experiences and feelings in a way that allows objectivity in the healing process.”- Dr. Rick Richardson, Experiencing Healing […]
“Feeling the pain is the first step toward healing the pain. The longer we avoid the feeling, the more we delay our healing. We can numb it, ignore it, or pretend it doesn’t exist, but all those options lead to an eventual breakdown, not a breakthrough.”- Lysa TerKeurst In Chapter 3 (“But How Do I […]
“Healing from anxiety requires healthy thinking. Your challenge is not your challenge. Your challenge is the way you think about your challenge.”- Max Lucado “Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.”- Proverbs 4:23 (New Century Version) In Chapter 9 (“Think About What You Think About”) of Anxious for Nothing, Max Lucado […]
“I don’t give up hope. Why? Because I’m the recipient of extravagant grace.”- Ann Swindell Ann Swindell concludes Chapter 9 of Still Waiting as she proclaims this truth. Physical healing without the grace of Christ’s presence within leaves you with nothing. Nothing. Thus, no physical healing in the world compares with the greatest treasure – […]
“Although I wait for healing and restoration, I do not wait alone. We have the spirit of Christ with us always.”- Ann Swindell “I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him […]
“Although Jesus deeply affirms our suffering, and although he catches each tear and profoundly understands every trial we have walked through, the suffering isn’t meant to be the focus of our lives. Jesus must be the focus.”- Ann Swindell As Ann Swindell concludes Chapter 7 of Still Waiting, she asserts we miss the point when […]
” . . . it’s actually a gift from God when our old coping mechanisms no longer help us get by. When our old standbys break down, it drives us to Him, and to the awareness that we need other people.”- Esther Fleece “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the […]
“When we minimize pain, we also minimize forgiveness. And when we minimize forgiveness, we minimize healing.”- Esther Fleece “The blood of Jesus doesn’t give you amnesia. My past happened. But Jesus gives you a life beyond your past.”- Christine Caine, author As Esther Fleece concludes Chapter 9 of No More Faking Fine, she asserts there’s […]
“As Christians, when we lose lament we lose more than the journey of a full human experience . . . we lose the depth and goodness of the gospel.”- Walter Brueggeman, Psalmist’s Cry: Scripts for Embracing Laments Esther Fleece concludes Chapter 6 of No More Faking Fine with a reminder. God welcomes, honors, and hears our […]
“That’s the thing about our coping mechanisms — they are always well-intentioned, but ultimately they do not get us where we want to go.”- Esther Fleece In Chapter 2 (“Letting Go of Our Coping Mechanisms”) of No More Faking Fine, Esther Fleece lists and discusses the false promises of coping mechanisms. While coping appears to […]
“We can be brokers of healing exactly where we have known the most brokenness.”- Ann Voskamp “I’m telling the solemn truth: Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me- you did it to me.”- Matthew 25:36 (The Message) Ann Voskamp concludes Chapter 16 of The Broken Way by […]
“There’s a cupping grace to it — how remembering becomes a healing. We welcome remembering . . . hold remembering, we let remembering wrap around us and carry us like a dance that need not end.”- Ann Voskamp As Ann Voskamp concludes Chapter 2 of The Broken Way, she observes there are a thousand raw […]