By Priscilla Lack
When we embark on a healing journey, we come to know the process of inner growth and heart changes. As we navigate new ways, it doesn’t take long to realize that sometimes, healing can be a messy process.
Even if we’ve become seasoned in our travels, new growth seasons can catch us unprepared. It doesn’t matter how long we’ve walked with God or how long we’ve pursued wholeness – some revisions kick up what’s within us.
A good portion of healing and growth is about unlearning mistruths, letting go of old survival skills, and upgrading how we relate to God, others, and ourselves.
Maybe we’ve already let go of numerous mistruths and old survival skills. But old ways and old hurts can still play up when the pressure is on. Instead of letting our past ways take us off course, we can calm our places of heart that need reassurance, and choose our new coping skills.
It’s helpful to remember we don’t have to get everything right. We don’t have to know everything as our heart is being awakened, expanded, and repaired. God will help us find our way through. He will bring us supportive people and He lovingly picks us up when we fall.
Healing doesn’t reject and leave ourselves behind. Instead, we are regathering the wholeness of who the Lord has designed us to be. We can appreciate who we were as a child, an adolescent, an adult, and who we are becoming. All of our life stages and experiences are important.
The Turret
Inner growth can be likened to climbing a turret. The higher you climb, the more you can see. The Lord opens your eyes to understand where you are and where you’ve been. As you get ready to take the next steps, you can trust His guidance because you’ve come to know that He cares for you. Others may not understand what you’ve had to push through, but God does. He has been with you each step of the way.
Things that matter often cost us something to acquire. Some areas of growth and healing are uncomfortable, even painful, and it takes time and effort for the mending to become a reality.
It’s normal to prefer quick solutions to crises and growing pains. But God’s timing is usually different than ours. He may have us sit in our discomfort for a season, because timely pauses help us remember what we’ve learned. Our new growth then becomes more established in our life expression.
Pursuing growth and wholeness is a lifetime adventure. Growth happens by way of increments, cycles, and seasons … each time we grow through something, our life is strengthened and blessed. Small changes lead to bigger ones, and there is always hope as we come to appreciate the grace of God and the benefits of the journey.
I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 1:6)
Copyright © 2026; Priscilla Lack; Photo courtesy of Unsplash.com
Notes:
Portions of this blog have been adapted from Travels of Healing, Priscilla Lack
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