Grow
“People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.”- Plato
We don’t see our progress. We don’t see how far we’ve come. We don’t see our growth until someone points it out. We can’t stop it. It just happens. We heal. We move on. We get bigger. We get wiser. We grow. Embrace it. Love it. Fight it. It is still going to happen. We grow when we least expect it. It comes in spurts. It comes with pain. It comes with joy. We grow.
Heal
I remember when ET brought a dying flower back to life. ET was one of my favorite movies growing up. It was my first introduction to sickness and healing. I remember Elliot and ET being quarantined. ET was turning white and all he wanted to do was go home. Interesting enough, ET had the ability to heal those around him, but not himself. We all have the ability to heal. Our bodies were created to heal themselves. We can heal emotional scars by releasing that anger, pain, and disappointment. We can heal relationships with apologies. Healing does take time. Healing does require change, and healing requires rest. Make it a point to heal before the new year.
Malum
Ephesians 6:12 (KJV) For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
I think that sometimes we forget that Lucifer was an angel. I think we are ignorant of the fact that spiritual warfare is real. I think we substituted faith for crystals. We use "energy" in the place of spirit. We have forgotten that the battlefield is in our minds. Our souls are at stake. Our humanity is being challenged. Our character is being tested. Execution is the cost of fear. Detention is the cost of being an immigrant. Torment is the cost of being a minority.
2 Chronicles 7:14 (KJV) If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.