I spent a good afternoon over the long weekend just chatting and sharing with a dear sister.

It was a blessed time, and I really walked away blessed from the conversation. God uses his people to show things about yourself. Things you never knew. Things (issues) you thought only others have. I mean, hey, I thought I knew myself well enough! Guess not.

Seemed that deep inside, there were some deep seated issues - recent, but deep. Camouflaged, stashed aside. Kept from view. I never knew were there.

You know how people become a sounding board for you… when as you share, they help you to see things that you never saw before. A different angle, a new perspective, a revelation. This sister helped me see it. Old wounds. Still raw and fresh as then. I thought it was a matter of the past, that I was already over it. And old wounds surface itself, manifest itself as something new, that you cannot recognise. Only a third party would be able to see it. Commonly it surfaces as an insecurity, self blame, a fear, an anxiety that you could never let go.

The question now is, what next? Its been unveiled. I see the wound, what’s the treatment?

I think I know the answer, I just need the strength to apply the strong medicine… Ouch! :(