Let the Journey Begin

My blog theme "What Really Matters?" has influenced me to rethink, observe, and analyze the importance of living a healing life. The reasons I express a healing life, and not a healed life, is that healing is an ever continuing process; it never stops or ends. I am not talking about physical healing, I'm pretty sure once your healed of a sickness, or of a disease, it becomes past-tense; like my mother was healed of cancer. But what I am trying to convey is the living of a life of healing. In other words experiencing God's healing throughout life, and in every area of our lives.

As we begin this journey called life our parents probably failed to inform us, if you haven't figured it out, life is difficult; life is full of obstacles, pain, suffering, work, and "inconviences" if I may. So, what is life all about then?

I remember my mother telling me that you have to work hard for what you want; the "money doesn't grow on trees" speech. Which is kind of eye rolling for any young teen; and with much sarcasm would have replied "no duh," but the visualization of a chankla (a sandal) being thrown at my head would make me think twice of trying to get smart with my Latina mother. Yet, I would venture to question if what I work for really is what would make life worth wild, a life worth living for. If you didn't know, life has its ups and it has its downs, but sometimes we just miss the point of what life is truly all about.

We ponder, analyze, and practically taste our struggles; we submerge ourselves with the feelings of hurt, pain, and loneliness...Why? What for? Why the overwhelming of such emotions? Some feelings are possibly due to people having hurt us in some way in our past. Maybe such emotions are because of the absence of attention, the feeling of rejection, or possibly because of some type of failure... You try and try, but you always seem to mess it up, it’s never good enough, and you can never seem to achieve a goal or an expectation placed on yourself, or placed by others. I wonder if Jesus sacrifices all that He was, and is, just so our sins can be forgiven. I am beginning to believe that the forgiveness of our sins is but a small part what Christ was trying to convey; though extremely important in the salvation of our souls. I must say though that of forgiving of those whom have caused us pain is extremely necessary for healing to begin within our hearts; even harder yet, maybe, forgiving yourself for the failures and wrong choices you, yourself, have made.

What if I said life is about family? It wouldn't be true, or even fair to say life is about family when you grow up in a broken home, or in an abused home for that matter. Family has a huge impact, another way to say influence, of how your worldview of life would be; even if you grew up in a Christian home. Yet, even Christian homes can be broken, full of abuse, rejection, and absence of attention, etc... One of the famous and well known questions out in the world is "so, what is the meaning of life?" Most Christians would quickly quote John 11:25-26 where in the Bible Jesus said, "...I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die..."

So, Christ is the life? What does that even mean? Christ died for us and for our sins so that we may live.

That we may live in what way? I'm not quite sure if Jesus only intended to die so that we may live a certain way, but rather to live in Him, and through Him.

Without God in our lives it is as life without breath. A life of healing is a life that can freely live as God intended. Healing is freedom. God created us to be free, not bound; free to be who we are in Him; free from pain, suffering, and sin; though that may not mean things will be easy or there will no longer be obstacles. Yet, the truest healing we may ever experience is the realization of who God truly is; allowing the reconnecting to the source of life to take place. That is what Christ was trying to convey when He said He was the resurrection and the life, He meant that He is the source of life. So the question is not what should life be about? Rather, let the questions begin with: Who is the source of life? Who can heal my life? Who can define my life and make it significant? Then your journey of healing and wholeness has only just begun...