Healing scars

I am beginning to understand a new metaphor about emotional healing.

There are emotional wounds that I have received throughout my life. I have come to realize that the normal progression is for one to tacet forgiveness toward the inflictor of the wound and even to the wound itself. And in so doing one would allow the wound to heal over to a scar.

Rather than do that, I have picked at the emotional wounds and caused them to bleed and become infected by revisiting the source of the wound and the incidents surrounding the wounding. Then I would build resentment because of the wounds' existence. I believe that the reason for engaging in that behavior is a vain attempt to protect myself from further wounding. But instead the net effect is that I had shut myself from those who would love me and from the blessings that the universe is trying to grant me.

But I have learned that if I grant life and love to my wounds and their sources, I can give them up to the loving universe so that my wounds may heal.

Granted, the scars from the healed wounds will most likely remain for the duration of my life, but instead of being a cause of consternation and fear in me, they will be a reminder that I have healed from the pain and can rejoice that I am able to release myself from the resentment I had clutched to my breast so tightly. My heart can then be free.

Good progress.