Quotes About Healing

I'm just a broken girl who's learned I can't walk the crooked path of this life.

Mary E. DeMuth

Your past will either haunt you or it will break you enough to reach for rescue.

God] occupies all the difficult spaces humanity has endured. While I can't fully reconcile the problem of evil and why so many people have been sexually violated over the centuries, I do know this: Jesus has wept alongside me, and he weeps for his church to rise up valiantly and love the least, the last, and the lost. This is our WE TOO moment, to purposefully suffer alongside the sexually broken.

Love didn't end all at once, no matter how much you needed it to or how inconvenient it was. You couldn't command love to stop any more than a marriage document could order it to appear. Maybe love had to bleed away a drop at a time until your heart was numb and cold and mostly dead.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

Father says it will come in time. "Time heals," he says. I don't tell him that I don't know what time is.

Some scars took longer to heal than others, and some scars, I knew, were necessary. Some things you should never forget.

His death only gave me an ending -- it didn't give back what had been taken

There were no rules to grief, but there were rules to life, and in those first few days, the requirements of the living demanded I keep going.

Even justice couldn't erase scars—it only delivered on a promise to the living that evil would not go unpunished.

How did one fall out of love without falling apart at the same time?

wound goes. It is deep. What. How. Oh,

there were a hundred ways to fall in love. Maybe there were a hundred ways to find and give forgiveness too. I think I had already found a few of them.

The past is all forgiven long ago, dear Ringwood," said his sister earnestly; "it would be ill for brother and sister if the love between them could not outlive old injuries, and be the brighter and the truer for old sorrows.

We learned. Some of the things we learned left scars.

I wanted to know people. I wanted to love. But I didn't realize how badly I had been hurt. I didn't realize that my habit of distance had become so unconscious and deep that I didn't know how to be with another person. I could only fix that person in my imagination and turn him this way and that, trying to feel him, until my mind was tired and raw.

Pasaré por casa de Kate. Cuando muere un ser querido los amigos vienen a verte los dos primeros días, pero es después del entierro cuando la persona que permanece en esta vida se da cuenta de que nunca volverá a ver esa cara ni oír esa voz. Es entonces cuando los amigos son realmente necesarios.

Back when we were kids, the experts thought kids were protected if they couldn't access their most damaging memories. But now they know suppressed memories can cause all kinds of problems as an adult- anxiety, depression, PTSD, amnesia...

Nee!' Laura schreeuwde bijna. 'Ik snij mijzelf nooit meer!

As a child grows, the Lifebook is used for a multitude of purposes, including helping a child deal with unresolved feelings as they surface. A child's Lifebook should be added to as he journeys through life. It also should be accessible to children any time they feel a need to thumb through it. The Lifebook, after all, belongs to the child.

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Softly he continued, "You need to ask God for forgiveness. That's His job, isn't it? To forgive imperfect humankind. You are quick to forgive others and offer them kindness. Do the same for yourself.

No perdonar es como un cáncer. Te acaba corroyendo por dentro