moving to hope

There once was a girl who cut herself.  She chose to cut where nobody would ever see, so made her marks on her hip bones.  She thought there was no hope for her to change, so she vowed to get a tattoo from hip bone to hip bone that read "some scars may never heal."

This girl went through life believing about herself that very thing - that she was unfixable, that the pain she had experienced could never be healed, that her heart could never be restored.  Then one day she was sent off to a group home where she denied having any issues at all, pretending as if her life was great and her parents simply wanted to make her miserable by sending her off.

Several days after arriving, she was already writing a letter to her parents, admitting to everything.  She came, over time, to understand that other people can enter into her brokenness, that Jesus can come into her brokenness, and heal her.  She saw that her heart could be stitched back together, that each crack could be filled, each wound healed.  A verse that became important for her was Isaiah 53:5: "By His wounds we are healed."

She told me a few days ago that she changed her mind about that tattoo she wanted.  Instead of "some scars may never heal," she wants from hip bone to hip bone, from scar to scar, to say "He can heal all wounds."

What a beautiful transformation.
God is faithful, God is Good, and He does heal all wounds.