Healing is Hard Work
Doing the work to heal is hard. It requires the courage to face the fears, hurts, and pains we’ve often tried to bury. Growth isn’t easy because healing asks us to confront the very things we’ve spent years avoiding.
Why? Because it’s hard.
Who wants to truly deal with the things we’ve been trying to avoid?
But it’s often in those difficult moments that God begins to restore and heal what has been broken. Healing isn’t about pretending the pain never existed—it’s about allowing Him to transform the pain into change, hope, and growth. It’s about moving forward in spite of what we’ve been through. In most cases, it’s to not only help ourselves, but to help others.
My journey toward healing hasn’t been easy—and if I’m honest, it’s still ongoing. Healing isn’t a place that I’ve arrived at; it’s something that occurs daily. It’s a choice.
There are times when I must remind myself not to revisit the past in ways that keep old hurts and pains at the forefront. And when I do bring up something from the past, I try to ask myself: Is this leading me toward healing, or is it pulling me backward? If it’s towards healing, I’m grateful; if it’s moving backward, I evaluate the actions or conversations I need to take or have in order to move forward.
I’ve learned there’s a difference between processing hurt so it can heal and replaying it in a way that keeps me stuck. I want to choose the path that leads to change, hope, growth, and the future God has for me.
God doesn’t want any of us stuck. He has a plan for us to live a fulfilled life!
Until next time.
Blessings,
© Lisi P, 2026
