Are you tired of being broken?

Broken Toys
As children bring their broken toys,
With tears, for us to mend;
I brought my broken dreams to God
because he was my friend.

But then instead of leaving him in peace to work alone,
I hung around and tried to help with ways that were my own.
At last, I snatched them back and cried,
"How could you be so slow?"
"My child," He said, "What could I do?
You never did let go...."
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Sometime we are NOT like the child in the story; we do not acknowledge our brokenness. Not to anyone else and not even to ourselves. We carry it around with us; like a doll with a missing arm; we feel the pain but won't admit that we need some fixing. 

And then once we do admit our brokenness to ourselves, the areas in our lives that have endured abuse, suffered wounds and even been stunted in growth and healing, we tend to try to hide it from others. We don't "let go" of our pain to trust someone else to help us through the healing process. It is painful. We have problems  trusting others because so many have proven untrustworthy in our lives and we don't want to "let anyone in" to see the mess that we live with daily. 

Sometimes, we may trust and believe that God or a doctor or family member are able and willing to help us; but then again, do we trust and "let go" of the pain so that we can be healed and made whole again. We do not have to live lives of brokenness.  We can "find ourselves, heal from abuse and learn to dream again"...and this healing journey begins by ADMITTING THAT WE ARE WORTH IT...and that any brokenness that we will acknowledge CAN be healed.

Try it...admit your pain and you will find your brokenness. You are not "less of " a person but will become a whole hearted and healed person as soon as you make ONE STEP on this healing journey. 

YOU can do it. YOU are worth it!!!

Have you FOUND yourself???

What 

is 

YOUR VISION 

for your life????

Do you remember the High School Social Studies or Language Arts (in my case it was "Human Relations" with Dr. Mac) class where you had to write an essay on "What I see for myself in 5 years"??? I remember mine and I STILL HAVE IT. I just saw it the other day and was surprised to see that 35 years after my High School graduation that I am ALMOST to where I envisioned myself to be now when I was only 17!!!

I wish that I would have understood some of the wonderful tools; like personality typing and other self-evaluating tools that have scientifically allowed us to "peer inside" ourselves just by answering a few questions.

I challenge that you FIND YOURSELF today; if you do not know your Jung (Carl; that is) Personality Type, then I encourage you to TAKE A QUICK ONLINE TEST NOW...
Jung Typology Test™ 
CHALLENGE yourself to "learn more about yourself" today. I am glad that I did.

Jung Typology Test™

This free test is based on Carl Jung’s and Isabel Briggs Myers’ typological approach to personality *. Upon completion of the questionnaire, you will: Obtain your 4-letter type formula according to Carl Jung’s and Isabel Briggs Myers’ typology, along with the strengths of preferences and the description of your personality type Discover careers and occupations most suitable for your personality type along with examples of educational institutions where you can get a relevant degree or training See which famous personalities share your type....and much, much more.

Change your VIEW

What 

does 

HEALING 

look 

like???

• Healing from abuse is like climbing a mountain. At times our healing journey feels like climbing and even scaling a mountainside, we are always pushing ourselves to "go higher" with little to no understanding or expectation of what it will look like when we get to the top.
• Make sure that your FOOTING is secure; this is really an important step (pardon the intentional pun)
• Pause and rest along the way; PACE YOURSELF.
• The "higher you climb, the better the view will look". Seeing FARTHER when we are up higher, gives up greater motivation to continue.
• You will gain a new perspective on your abilities and take pride in your accomplishments.
• Making it to the top is exhilarating; ENJOY the view!
• SING A NEW SONG; live intentionally "in the moment" and focus on the JOURNEY and not just the "end result".

This was an inspired image that I experienced one day while I was trying to explain "how it feels to be healed" on my journey of "finding myself, healing from abuse and learning to dream again".

The part that I did not add are the "other obstacles" that we may run across on our healing journey; the nay sayaers, abusers and inconsiderate and unloving persons who accuse of "of being selfish" in taking time to "take good care of ourselves"...these are VERY real obstacles...we all have persons in our lives who do not encourage us to "find ourselves, heal from abuse and learn to dream again"...they are the selfish people who KNOW that WHEN we are healed, healthy and WHOLE that we will be "Singing a New Song" and we will not want the relationship with them that THEY are currently enjoying; more than likely; you are being abused and your abuser doesn't want you to become aware of their control over you.

IT IS TIME to heal...time to take the time to "be good to ourselves" and to treat ourselves in the ways that we deserve to be treated by others. We deserve to be treated lovingly, respectfully and with great encouragement to live a life where we will be "Singing a New Song".