The word “all” is too much – the word all is almost always too much. Time does heal some wounds. Not all.
If you put a band aid on a small cut and keep it clean and dry the wound
will heal in time. Bruises and bumps and
strains will heal … in time. Let us call
those outer wounds – injuries that happen to our bodies. Some of those will heal in time.
Drastic ones may not. Barb’s uncle lost the tip of his fingers in the snow blower mistake they tell all of us not to make. That injury will not heal – the fingers are gone forever. The pain is gone, and he has adapted well. There are also inner injuries: abuse, neglect, death of a loved one, loss of relationship, angry words at a family gathering.
Drastic ones may not. Barb’s uncle lost the tip of his fingers in the snow blower mistake they tell all of us not to make. That injury will not heal – the fingers are gone forever. The pain is gone, and he has adapted well. There are also inner injuries: abuse, neglect, death of a loved one, loss of relationship, angry words at a family gathering.
How has it been for you with wounds and time? Has time healed them all? Or some? Or none?
One of the scriptures we will use on Sunday is Psalm 30: 5: Weeping may linger for the night but joy
comes in the morning. Has that been true
for you?
Post whatever thoughts you wish to share over or come at 9:45 on Sunday for coffee and conversation.
Thoughts from others:
It
has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In
time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the
pain lessens. But it is never gone.
Rose Kennedy
"There
are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have
taken hold". -Frodo, The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkein
The
past is never dead. It's not even past.
William
Faulkner
Time
doesn't heal, it's what you DO with the time that does.
