Have you tried to put a broken heart back together? Healing hearts can be painful, taking it step by step. It’s through each step that you move further away from the pain and closer to the healing. Each step can bring about healing and also revealing the deep root of the issue. That is crucial to recovery and to staying healed. If you would just continue to cover the scab and not deal with the issue underneath, it will just continue to be painful and delay the healing. I guess this is why I love the step work process for recovery. Not only did it save my life and reveal so many deep issues, I’ve seen it work in keeping my son sober for nearly 8 years after a horrible addicted life and I’ve seen it work in my daughter’s life as well.
Healing hearts in Step 3
Step 3 is and was one of my favorites in working the steps. In my recovery process at a healing center, I worked through the workbook and then the step book of 3 different target issue areas. Each time that I would get to Step 3, I would get excited because the work would include me writing a letter to God. Step 3 is this, Made a decision to turn our will and life over to the care of God as we understand Him. Each time I would need to surrender and humble myself to Him and start all over again. This step is truly how my 1st book, “Prayers to a Heavenly Father” https://tonnilea.com/product/prayers-to-a-heavenly-father/ came to be written and published.
Letter to God
I want you to read one of my letters that I wrote out to God during a difficult time in my life and how it helped me get out the pain and to stand in awe of all He was doing in my life at that time and I knew that He was going to continue to work on me and complete His will and purpose through my life, someway, somehow. To reveal to God how I understood Him and how I felt about Him.
Father, As I described to you this morning, You are my King, Holy and to be honored above all things. You are the Great I am, Kin of Kings, Lord of Lords, Wonderful, Counselor, Almighty God are You, Prince of Peace. You amaze me by the beauty of the sunrise and the sunsets, the blue sky that never ends. I see you Father in the little children because they are so caring, so loving and so carefree. Lord, You supply every need that I need and You also give me the desires of my heart. You are my protector and you keep the enemy from destroying me and all the great things you have prepared for me. Lord you are the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, there is no one else that is more loving or caring than You. You took all mu sins, You carried them to the cross and You endured the horrific pain of being crucified from me, FOR ME! Such love, I can’t even comprehend here on earth. Unconditional love that never leaves, never ends. Lord You are my Heavenly Husband, so faithful and true. Never leaving me, never hurting me, never betraying me, never lying to me, never being selfish. You are always there for me and listening to me. Lord, there is no one else I would want but You! You are all I need!
My Thoughts
My heart was so horribly broken from the betrayal and lies from the ex husband but I found true love, joy, contentment and happiness in my Father God. I knew that I could trust God, I knew that His Word was full of truth and honesty. Not only because it was His Word but because I had lived it, seen it, and tasted it to be true. Oh yes, I had some doubt at times, I questioned Him as to where He was and why was He not ending the pain. But deep down I knew the truth. After digging deeper into my heart I found the reasons for doubt and fear and I was able to forgive God for what I thought He was, or didn’t do, or didn’t accomplish according to my thoughts or wants, I was able to forgive myself for doubting God Almighty and learned to accept Him at His Word and to know that I would be His Way, His Time if I would just let go and let Him have His way. A process that I do almost everyday when I forget and get in His way.
Step 3 showed me again that love that the Heavenly Father has and will always have. It is nothing like that of any human on earth, it can’t be because His love is as endless as the oceans of the world, and even greater.
I hope that if you’re feeling the doubt, the untrust, the betrayal hurt from someone, take the time to write God a letter and let Him know how you feel and let Him show you His true love and desire for your life.
Healing Hearts can be done, step by step.
