We have all heard that there are always "strings attached". This usually refers to some great deal or opportunity that is too good to be true. "There are always strings attached." Beware!
Well this week, I learned another way to see this phrase. I saw Sister Dulci (healing nun) again. She performed an inner healing on me. In going through the process, she had me envision a string running from my heart to the heart of people that were hurtful to me. She suggested that I had a pair of scissors and instructed me to cut that string and pull the remnant out of my heart leaving me no longer attached to that person. The goal was that I would no longer have any feelings of those people having any impact on my life. Also, that the hurt they caused would be released to God forever.
Are there people in your life to whom you are still (painfully) attached? Is the hurt they caused you still controlling some aspect of your life? Are they still "renting space" in your head? Can you imagine being free from the pain? Whatever method it takes, why don't you try cutting the ties that bind? Pulling the strings of pain from your heart. Living your life with the past in the past, enjoying the present, and being excited about the possibilities in the future.
Releasing yourself from the hurt people caused does not mean you don't love them anymore. It just means that you are taking back your life so that you might live it more fully. May we all look to God to show us how we can do this and how we can finally, forever, permanently lay all of it at His feet. May this free us all to be the people that He created us to be.
Psalm 139: 13-14 You formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother's womb. I praise you, because I am wonderfully made; wonderful are your works. My very self you know.
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