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Hope for Healing

Why am I not better?
Why am I still so triggered by this?
Why am I just so sad?
These are the types of questions that college professor Heather Thompson Day regularly hears from her students at a Christian university. Ultimately, it seems, most of them are asking the same question: why is something that hurt me in the past still affecting me so much in the present?
On the latest episode of Viral Jesus, Day explains that healing is not a linear process. While it’s natural to crave a deadline—that date in the future when everything will get better—grief, trauma, and the general hardships of life simply don’t ascribe to such a timetable.
“The very definition of healing is that it’s a process. ” says Day. “Our job is simply to commit to the process … and thank goodness we serve a God who will make all things new.”
When pain from the past, problems in the present, or fear of the future threaten to steal joy, remember: to be human is to be in need of healing. Keep putting one foot in front of the other, confident that there is hope for healing in the life that will be entirely fulfilled in eternity.