When we think of what restoration looks like, rarely do we envision anything other than the final results. The gleaming finish, the smooth edges, the polish and the shine. We focus on how things will be when its all said and done completely forgetting the WORK necessary to get to completion. I remember a few months after my husband and I reconciled I started saying, we are restored when the truth really is we were just getting started on the process. Restoration doesnt just HAPPEN. It occurs over time. It is a process much like standing and even four years out I can look at my husband and I and see God is still working. Still clearing out junk, gunk, debris and dust. Getting everything just right and just so. Truthfully, the process was not what I expected. I didnt know there would be more necessary refinishing for me and my one flesh once we reconciled but there was. A little fine tuning here and a little strengthening there. Jesus operated as our general manager and tightened down bolts and worked on squeaks and sanded out the rough spots. It was painful. There were some things that needed to be completely removed and made new. Some things needed to be made over and replaced. But amazing is our God because as He works and we bend to His will, rust turns into shine and misfitted places suddenly fit again. Someone today needs to read this and know you are not alone. Ive been there. I wanted to move and prayed for God to arrange a way to get me far away from surroundings and people that caused me so many triggers and so much pain. It didnt happen. God left me here and by the strength of the Lord made perfect in my weakness I can say those triggers exist no more. God didnt need to move ME to make the triggers go away. He could heal and take ashes and blow them into beauty right in the midst of them. I know what it feels like to want to RUN. I wanted to leave many times during the restoration process. It was excruciatingly painful and yet I could not leave. I wanted to but could not. What I would urge you to do in times like that is take a break from the pain. Take a focus off restoration for a bit. Spend some time with friends. Find a quiet place away from home and work and do something you enjoy. Visit family. Take a break from the pain and give yourself a break from the process. Take 10 if you will so you can keep going. Restoration is a process. Healing is not a straight line of progression. Change takes time and slow change is still progress. #KeepGoing. God didnt being you this far to leave you where you are.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 20:28:59 +0000
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