Dressing the Wound
by
Vickie Petz Henderson
In today’s podcast, host Vickie Petz Henderson gets personal. She opens up about why she wrote Dressing the Wound and shares some of her own struggles with unforgiveness. When illness blindsided and ended her career, not everyone was supportive, and Vickie was left feeling betrayed. She found herself replaying the hurtful scenario over and over in her mind. The wound in her heart festered and grew, consuming her thoughts, until she recognized the real source of her ongoing pain: unforgiveness.
Betrayal is a wound inflicted by others. Unforgiveness is self-inflicted. @VickiePetzH #TheHeartoftheAuthor #podcast #DressingtheWound Click To TweetWe’ve all been hurt, and in order to heal, we must forgive. It’s not an easy thing to do. Forgiveness is not a one-time event, but a process. Sometimes, it’s a lifelong process because we have a tendency to relapse. Something triggers the memory, and it’s easy to start ruminating on it again. We nurse that wound, and it grows bigger and becomes infected with the bitterness that we feed it.
Be careful what you feed. It might grow. @VickiePetzH #TheHeartoftheAuthor #podcast #DressingtheWound Click To TweetThe Bible describes bitterness as a “root” that defiles many (Heb.12:15). Roots grow deep underground and are hard to pull up. We don’t see the roots, but we see what they produce. People around us see the effects of bitterness when it spews out of us. We have to nip it in the bud before it takes root, and the only remedy for bitterness is forgiveness. Unless we forgive, we will never be free from the pain or bitterness of our wounded hearts.
Unforgiveness destroys the offended, not the offender. @VickiePetzH #TheHeartoftheAuthor #podcast #DressingtheWound Click To TweetJoin Vickie and cohost Jasa Babb on the podcast as they share some of the practical steps we can take toward forgiveness and freedom.
