{"id":6319,"date":"2014-01-12T14:40:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T19:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=6319"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:40","slug":"scars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/scars\/","title":{"rendered":"SCARS"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Calvin<\/a><\/strong>The scars of the past reveal two things about us.\u00a0 For one thing, they remind us we have been injured.\u00a0 Secondly, they indicate healing has happened.\u00a0 The important thing to note here is that we are free to focus our attention on either of these two facts.\u00a0 If we choose, we can allow our scars to keep our injuries ever before us.\u00a0 We can permit them to nag us with repeated anxiety.\u00a0 We can rapidly recall all those folk who have caused us pain.\u00a0 We can continually curse the circumstances that have hurt us.\u00a0 If we get angry enough, we can even shake our fist at God for allowing us to have troubled times.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bathing ourselves in self-pity, we may find a few people who will join us in our tub of tears.\u00a0 Some,\u00a0whose scars are fresh and wounds open, may find our whining attractive and surround us with an insidious pity party.\u00a0 Yes, scars can be a terrible reminder of the bad things which have happened to us.\u00a0 Yet, if we surround ourselves with folk who keep us focused on the hurt, we will never learn the lesson of our scars.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On the other hand, however, our scars can help us focus on healing rather than hurt.\u00a0 If we choose, we may gratefully remember the processes of\u00a0healing as our wounds were repaired.<\/span><\/div>\n
From physical injury to spiritual pain we saw forgiveness and grace at work.\u00a0 The scars of both instill memories of hope as we trust God’s healing power.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We may finger lovingly the pages of scripture that brought health to our souls.\u00a0 In love, we may rejoice over the growth that came through our painful chastisements.\u00a0\u00a0In faith, we may place the scars of our past into the nail-scarred hands of Jesus, as we celebrate the future.\u00a0 Yes, scars are signs that healing has happened.\u00a0 How do you see your scars?<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The scars of the past reveal two things about us.  For one thing, they remind us we have been injured.  Secondly, they indicate healing has happened.  The important thing to note here is that we are free to focus our attention on either of these two facts.  If we choose, we can allow our scars … Continue reading “SCARS”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[37,57],"class_list":["post-6319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matters-of-faith","tag-inspirational","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19144,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions\/19144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}