“A bruised reed he will not break and a smoldering wick He will not snuff out” Isaiah 42:3 NIV

I have probably used this scripture in one of my articles and most likely will again as it is one of my favorite and shows the heart of God.

Currently, I am facilitating a class called “Healing of Damaged Emotions” by David Seamands. A strange thing has happened to me since starting the class. My nineteen year old grandson wants to find his father. I promised him when he was six that I would help him. So after trying to find him on People Search I got the bright idea to go on MySpace and I just heard of Facebook.

To my surprise I got an e-mail saying I think that we are related on Facebook.  My biological father lives in Michigan. He has three children that I don’t really know. My brother Mike’s daughter contacted me. She said that she remembers my one and only visit to Michigan almost twenty eight years ago. She was excited that she found me again. It was very touching that she even remembered since she was very young.

Then I got messages from my sister-law and their son. I have no idea what God is doing. I have also reconnected with some of my cousins on my mother’s side through, unfortunately, a death in the family. It is as if we never lost touch and is good to reminisce.

Why am I talking about this? The reason, obviously God is healing a part of my emotions once again. Though I am facilitating the class, He has work to do in me.

Isaiah 28: “precept upon precept, precept upon precept, lines upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little” (KJV). I have had emotional healing over the years, but I have not arrived. Thank God His Spirit is always at work in us to bring us to the place He wants us to be.

The ladies in the class will tell you that it can be uncomfortable at times to face unpleasant memories that have damaged us in some ways, either relationally, spiritually, or physically. Our God is a gentle and loving God who was there at the time of our distress and continues on the path with us always and always causes us to triumph.

Today you may be dealing with some emotional wound, divorce, loss of a loved one, loss of a job, being alienated from someone you care about, dealing with a rebellious child, the list can go on and on. Whatever it is we all know to take it to prayer and I tell my counselees to put a word on it from the Word. Whenever Satan rears his ugly head to tell you a lie we can follow the example of our precious Savior and say “It is written” and I believe it.