Healing

Thought I would let you all know that my eye is healing. I have had scratches on my cornea in the past due to contact issues and that heals pretty quickly. This has been a bit different in that I have had to have a lot of down time and my eye has been dilated continuously since last Wednesday morning. This makes seeing, reading, watching TV, emailing, and just about anything you can think of incredibly challenging. I haven't been this bored in a very long time.
Funny, I always think things will be healed quickly and I can move on with life. After years of being on a healing path with God, you would think that I would know by now that these things take time! Sitting with others in their pain, I hear often, "I thought I would be over this by now." That is when I remind them that God wants us to be healed completely. It is a process, not an event. Well, I am definitely in process this week. In more ways than one.
Not being able to read well, or see to type very well has given me a lot of time to do things not related to school. I truly am loving school and all that goes with it, but I have been tired. Having the time to sit and think, and to meditate on the things that God has been doing in me and through me for the last year and a half has been good medicine for my soul. I have had to use several eye drops multiple times a day for the last week. Each drop has bathed my eye with the very things that are bringing healing and restoration to my eye. It is the same with all that God has been doing in me and through me. Each of these things have brought much healing and restoration to my heart.
As I think through how He has been directing my steps over the last fourteen years, I am becoming more and more aware of the deep scaring that I have had in my heart, but even greater still, the deep, deep healing and restoration He has been bringing. With each step He has guided me along my journey of healing, I have seen the beauty of His truth and the wonder of His love. It has not been an easy journey. In fact, I have often wished that I could be done. Crazy thing is, the longer I travel with Him, the more I have come to understand that the journey is really an adventure. An adventure of discovering who I am, who He is, and how much He longs to use me to lead others toward their journey to discover the same depth of healing and restoration that He continues to bring to me.
So as I sit through the next week, waiting for the healing process to be completed in my eye, I am taking inventory of all that God has brought me through so far, and all that He is leading me toward on this powerfully adventurous journey. Knowing that each bend brings on new challenges, greater healing, and deeper faith; creating in me the great hope of knowing that He is faithful, trustworthy, and ever present along the way.
Pressing onward,
~Angie