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Healing is a Process
Healing cannot be rushed anymore than I can speed up the growth of a flower. No matter how much I try to encourage a flower to grow I cannot make it grow at a faster rate.
Healing is a process that is different for everyone. Each time I am faced with a healing process I get upset. Even though I’m never quite sure how long it will take I’m sure it’s not fast enough.
The issues become about timing, deadlines, and who we trust.
Let me address timing first. It seems that in life an illness or disaster of some kind always comes at the wrong time. I remember getting really ill one time right before an important performance at Christmas time. The timing was terrible. And, there was absolutely nothing I could have done to get myself well in time for the performance. I ended up performing even though I was incredibly ill. The reasons for doing so are interesting. Why I got so impatient about my healing process that I would further jeopardize my health by performing could be a topic for another day. Bottom line is that illness and difficult circumstances often cannot be predicted or anticipated.
Allow me now to discuss deadlines. What I’m talking about is the thought in my mind that there is a deadline for healing. It is the belief that by a certain date and time that we should be healed. I can tell you is that in certain areas of my life I…
