Shuffling,
re-organizing,
simplifying, 
stripping away the old.

All the right words to be passed at the table during this Spring-Cleaning-Time-Of-Year.
And, wow, was I on it!  I may not have had the energy or strength to strip the paint, but I sure cleaned out the old notebooks left over from Homeschooling Days!  (It's been a decade since the youngest graduated.  I think it's time to remove the final binder from my closet shelf!)

I am not so sure I want those Spring-Cleaning-Tasks applied to my heart.

At least not when I really allow the stripping away of the old to go all the way
to the deep-down places of my

Soul.

But I want to be HEALED.  I want to find that REMISSION word.  I want my HEART to be at Rest.

So.

Scripture tells me that Jesus was "wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities,

Surely He bore our sorrows, and by His stripes we are healed."

There can be no healing unless a wounding has happened first.

I am here, in this place of being purged,

And feeling my wounds, like never before--

Do you know the feeling?

I will go this week to sit with a  much-loved Counselor.  And I know I will see more shuffling, more re-organizing, and  more uncovering of my own woundedness.  But even there, the full healing won't be won by the words that we break open.....

No, I am only too full of those transgressions that never end.  I am only too full of my own iniquities. And I am only too full of new bruises and wounds that explode every day.  It would never end --

Except that--

Jesus was wounded. And Jesus was bruised.  And Jesus bore it all so that He could bring my healing.

My healing.

Your healing.

He purges and He cleanses and His Words tear down my Walls

And then He climbs right into my Soul.

All the other cleaning?  It's necessary, for sure.  But it's only part of the process.

The process that's meant to show me how He covers me with HIS heart

That already won the full.

Full Hearted Healing.

I'm linking up with the Faith Barista for her #OneWordLent series, and my oneword this week is "Wounded"   http://www.faithbarista.com/

 

Journey is the word for today over at "The Faith Barista."  And I am sharing again during her
#OneWordLent  invitation over at her Blog.

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted
And saves those who are crushed in spirit.~ Psalm 34:4-7, 18

As "TheFaithBarista" shared this Scripture Passage and that one word, "Journey," my heart was stirred again to think that Jesus chose to Journey from Heaven to save me from my brokenhearted place.

How many crushed-in-spirit times have I cried out to Him on this Journey of my own?  How many times have I considered His Journey and the pain He walked thru?  How many? 

The years roll by.

And still, He never once turns me away.  He never once says my Journey is too small.  He never once fails to save me from my brokenhearted place.

Because He is SAVIOR. 

I want to cry out, "Save me from this place, Jesus!  I am tired of Doctor visits.  I am tired of pain that returns.  I am tired of waiting for that REMISSION word."

But my Savior invites me on this Journey.  ....  His Journey ...   To walk with Him and feel His Heart.  To persevere and see His eyes.   To Look above this soil and find the blue. 

Heaven is my Home.   Jesus invites me there.  

Walking this path?  Only for a while.  Only for the days that He asks me to share and bring along and pray along and sing along with Him, for those who are also walking their way to Him.  We Journey Together.  Because Jesus saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Do you hear Him calling?

Here is the link for today:
http://www.faithbarista.com/