• Cleaning Up Our Wounds

  Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Feb 8, 2009 (message contributor)

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  Tags:  Dealing With Conflicts

  Denomination: Anglican

CLEANING UP OUR WOUNDS

Moira, Stephen and I love watching ‘Casualty’ on BBC1. We were catching up on an old episode this week, so please turn away if you’re squeamish! (But I won’t show you my scars!) A lady had an open wound in her foot. As the nurse rolled back her thick socks to reveal the wound he immediately looked away, and the camera cut away after a quick shot of maggots crawling about in the wound. The good news is that he dealt with the creepy crawlies, cleaned up the wound and gave her antibiotics. In a similar way we need to deal with any emotional open wounds, any unresolved conflicts that have been allowed to fester, as far as it is possible on our part (Rom 12: 14-18).