Most of us weren’t raised to live — we were raised to survive.
We learned to silence our needs, to over-function when we were exhausted, and to call numbness “strength.” We weren’t taught how to rest without guilt, how to walk away from what harms, or how to say “no” and still believe we’re loved. Instead, we were taught to endure, to fix ourselves quietly, and to find our worth in how much we could carry.
Yet Jesus came not so we could merely survive, but so we could live — fully, freely, and faithfully.
📖 “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” — John 10:10 (NKJV)
Healing, then, becomes an unlearning — a holy undoing of the patterns that kept us safe but small. It’s learning that rest isn’t laziness, that boundaries are sacred, and that peace isn’t the absence of struggle but the presence of Christ within it. It’s the slow, sacred return from striving to simply being — being loved, being whole, being enough.
You are not broken. You are a child of God relearning how to breathe again, how to receive grace instead of earning love, and how to walk in freedom instead of fear. Wholeness isn’t perfection; it’s alignment — your heart, mind, and soul resting in the One who makes all things new.
🕊️ Reflection:
What survival habits have shaped your life — and which ones is God inviting you to release today?🤔
🕊️ Prayer:
Lord Jesus, teach me to live abundantly, not anxiously. Heal the parts of me that confuse exhaustion with worth and busyness with belonging. Show me how to rest in Your love and walk in true freedom.
In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
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