Dear Wounded Heart,
Do you a favor and never allow yourself to become a member of the walking dead? As we endure the suffering seasons of life, the pain makes us lose things, and sometimes we lose our will to live. We disguise it as a pattern. But if we pay attention to the pattern, it’s a slow death.
It starts with us waking up and haphazardly making it through the day. A day where we don’t require ourselves to seek excitement, pleasure, joy or anything that causes us to feel beyond the boundaries of our pain. Many of us label it as existing, but we are embracing a slow yet continual death.
We need to recognize that we have survived the sometimes harsh blows of life, which means we are strong. And we need to grab hold of that strength, take one day at a time, look beyond the boundaries of our pain, and seek life again. As we identify the lies that we are feeding ourselves, we can acknowledge there is life beyond pain.
It’s difficult, but all we need to do is convince ourselves that it’s possible. We have a heartbeat, the ability to hope, which is all we need to spark our desire to live. Once we spark the desire, reflect on the days when living was our goal, then the inspiration to live again will remove us from the walking dead to alive. We can do this. All we need to do is start.
Love always,
Healing
