all things done in the dark will come to light

But I believed with my whole heart that God wanted me to do it it was the last piece in my healing journey. It was painful and vulnerable, and I cried the whole time I was writing. When I first wrote my abortion story on my blog, I didn’t want to do it. God always seems to bring things back until we deal with them. Have you ever done that? That’s the moment to make a move to deal with it and say, “Okay, God, I’m ready and willing.” If you don’t, I can assure you that “thing” will come up later. Let’s say you are broken over something, and you cry out to God about it, and then the next day everything seems fine and you think, Oh, it’s really not a big deal. We can hide and act like we’re okay, or we can get real vulnerable and walk through the fire in order to come out shining just a little bit brighter. We have the opportunity to accept or reject His guidance.

The Lord is tender and kind, and He will lead us toward freedom throughout our whole lives. We can choose whether we stay in our dark places - to be resentful and bitter and scared so that we don’t grow and let light in - or not. We all have a story that’s unfolding through our lives that won’t be complete until heaven, but it all has purpose if we are willing to go through the dark to get to the light. I believe the world is desperate for healthy people - people who are willing to have the dark places turned into light.Īnd isn’t it just lovely how God takes those dark places in our lives and offers to turn them into light? You see, I’ve decided that I want a healthy relationship with myself. I cry because the Lord reveals something in me that needs healing, and it hurts to uncover wounds, but it feels so good to acknowledge them so they can be healed.Īnd it’s because of this healing that I keep opening myself to this process. I sit on her couch and I talk and we pray and we ask the Lord what it is I need to know or see or deal with.Įven though I go in willing, once I’m there I think I’m fine, until it’s clear I’m not fine, and then I cry. Karen is the woman I talk to when God brings issues up in my life that need to be dealt with. There is something about entering into the vulnerable places of your heart with another person that just breaks and releases you.

All things done in the dark will come to light