{"id":1746,"date":"2018-03-01T20:38:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T20:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crazy4fiction.com\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2021-09-28T20:53:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T20:53:09","slug":"brave-enough-to-heal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/crazy4fiction\/brave-enough-to-heal\/","title":{"rendered":"Brave Enough to Heal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you know anyone who attends a twelve-step program like AA or Celebrate Recovery to address an addiction? These people have learned that healing is not easy peasy. They\u2019ve taken faltering steps to enter the basement of a church or community building to admit they need God\u2019s help to move forward into freedom. But the first night they told a room full of strangers about their brokenness probably came with a racing heart and sweaty palms.<\/p>\n

Finding healing from a broken past requires bravery\u2014even inviting God into the process requires courage. Beginning to confront pain often means reliving the wound for a second time. And this is why many people remain in unstable, unhealthy, or even abusive situations.\"\"<\/p>\n

Struggling with an addiction is one form of brokenness, but anyone who has been the victim of neglect, a difficult past, or abuse carries wounds in need of healing before they can meet their full potential in God. Unfortunately, giving up an ingrained coping mechanism often leaves a vacuum at first. Healing can feel insurmountable when you first experience the emptiness of choosing to abstain from food or drink, or when you begin to replace familiar unhealthy relationships with new, positive ones.<\/p>\n

Francine Rivers\u2019s latest work, The Masterpiece<\/em>, addresses this issue of facing a haunting, debilitating past. In this gripping novel, we meet two people unable to break free from t\"\"heir backgrounds, but for different reasons. Roman Velasco, aka Bobby Ray Dean, grew up in the ghetto with no father and a promiscuous mother, joining a gang and tagging buildings. Eventually he physically left the troubled neighborhood, but the troubled neighborhood never left him. He continues to carry the wounds and shame with him into his adulthood\u2014even though he\u2019s achieved great success as an artist.<\/p>\n

Roman constructs walls between himself and others to avoid anyone discovering the truth about Bobby Ray Dean. When he hires a young woman, Grace Moore, to work for him, she brings shame from the bad decisions of her own past. Both Roman and Grace struggle to let people into their lives and to embrace love. According to Susan Masterson, who runs a camp where Roman landed as a child, he will fail to reach his full potential, despite his success, unless he lets go of his past. Grace knows the same applies to her.<\/p>\n

And the same applies to us all. Until we are brave enough to face the experiences that have shaped and wounded us, we will remain stuck in the past or running from the past. Turning to God provides the courage we need to walk through the mess of our histories. In Joshua\u00a01:9, we are told, \u201cBe strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.\u201d<\/p>\n

We hope reading The Masterpiece<\/em> will shed light on this complicated topic and encourage you to confront your brokenness and inhabit the life God has prepared for you. Don\u2019t be discouraged if you can\u2019t forget your past. Healing means moving ahead in freedom without feeling trapped by unhealthy patterns of behavior, but it doesn\u2019t mean forgetting.\"\"<\/p>\n

Allowing God to heal us and redeem our past wounds\u2014and sharing these stories of redemption\u2014can encourage others to know they aren\u2019t alone. What are some ways you\u2019ve torn down protective walls and moved into a fuller life with more freedom? Please let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n

To continue the conversation about facing difficult pasts with bravery, we\u2019re offering these titles as e-book deals this month:<\/p>\n

Amy K. Sorrells <\/a> – Lead Me Home<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Visit E-Book Extra {http:\/\/www.ebookdeals.net\/} for more great deals available this month!<\/p>\n

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