01-A Healing-Lullaby

LORD, my Savior, the One with the power to heal

LORD, my GOD  -  a heart is broken.   

O Most Beautiful One on high, can you hear my plea?   Are you there? 

Please be the arms that will hold me in safety so I can allow the deep sadness that flows from the hurt.

Heal me, LORD.   Heal me. 

So drawn am I to your love, and yet afraid.  I am as a small child.  

Be the hand on the back of my head as a loving protecting father that will comfort and ease my pain.

Things have happened, LORD, that never should have happened.  

I am stirred to anger.  I marvel that You are able to receive me in my brokenness. 

Just let me be in your presence.

From on high, may a beam of Your light descend to light up this darkness.

I surrender all my worries to Your care.   I release, and I rest. 

Transform me.   Heal me.  Again, I surrender.  Work in me as I sleep.

Let me anticipate with joy the newness of your tender mercies that will come with the morning sun. 

Again, I let go.   Again, I surrender.   ……… Let it be so, my LORD, let is be so.      

When people live in unhealthy families, there is a lack of personal safety that can be debilitating. Growing up in an unsafe environment shapes us and establishes patterns in us which we bring into our adulthood. These unhealthy patterns churn out misery and suffering. The worst part is that we often live in unawareness of where the patterns came from and we just accept the belief that we are some how bad, and we allow our relationships to be destroyed rather than realizing instead, that we are wounded and need healing. We can become aware, and we can heal. God doesn’t intend us to be bound as with chains to all the sins committed against us or in our presence when we were children. Nor, does he intend this bondage to be the motivating force in our present that causes us to say with the aspostle Paul ” I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do… it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is the sin living in me.” (Romans 7:15,17)

As I am seeing clients every week, I again and again find myself addressing these themes of unhealthy living. Over the next few months I plan to use this forum to reflect on these themes. The Good News of the Gospels, which is my great joy to tell, is that by the love and grace of Christ, we can become free. We can be transformed into living the lives God intended for us all along . My prayer is that these reflections will be a blessing to you. Awareness, though often painful, is the first step of a healing journey that both begins and ends with a greater experience of the love of God.