Here's something for those that may be going through something. A healing moment.

There was a woman that for 18 years was cast down, crippled and her body was curved as it caused her eyes to look to the ground because of her circumstance. Her crippled body was always bent forward as she moved about her way. Her thoughts were always heavy and nothing more than of a low countenance. When she cried, the tears never rolled down her cheeks because she was stooped over in a position where they always fell to the ground.

Her daily thoughts were never filled with any joy and hope, all she knew was the pattern of the ground she walked on. The only mirror she saw was the cracks in the ground. She remembered the good ‘ol days when she was able to walk with happiness and joy before the trauma. Now here she walked daily emotionally crippled. She knew that what happened to her was not her fault but somehow she blamed herself and daily she stooped over, more and more. The more years that went by she could only think this is how it’s going to always be until I die. This gnawing pain I must endure until the end.

One day as she was walking on her journey emotionally stoop and dragging, a man saw her. This man saw her in a place where other people thought she wasn’t worthy to be acknowledged. The people considered her lower and less than the animals walking in the street around her. When the man saw her, he thought to himself, today is the day that she needs restoration. Today is the day to stop her emotional bleeding. Today is the day she will be healed of this affliction. Today is the day that she will see her future. Today she shall look up and not down. The woman didn’t know that the same daily path she walked was the very path to her miracle, to her it was just an ordinary day.

Then as the man approached the woman he called her unto him. This woman being stooped over and cast down for so many years could hardly lookup, All she could see was his sandals. You see she was afraid to look up. She was afraid to be told again she was ugly, unlovable and useless. She was afraid to see her future because she knew her future. She had been beat down and cast down by the words of so many people. She could only see that she was worthless and good for nothing. She lived her life controlled, consumed and confined by her trauma and the things people did to her. So she said to herself “Can I trust another man?” All trust and hope had left her.

Then once she came over to the man of hope and he touched her and said “ WOMAN YOU ARE LOOSED TODAY FROM THIS NAGGING CYCLE AND TORMENTING INFIRMITY”. RISE UP!!!!

The woman then was so overtaken by emotion, it was the feeling of new life again, she was now able to feel the tears run down her cheeks, the tears no longer dripped on the ground, she was able to see the peoples faces, she now was able to stand in confidence again. In excitement she said no more pain! no more pain!. She looked at the man of hope shaking and trembling and he said “ You Daughter of The Promises” you are loosed this day from the one who kept you in prison, cast down, with no hope and a future!!. Walk in the newness of hope, life and freedom and never look down again.

And as she took steps and started to walk toward her new life and future, all the people that mocked her, talked about her and cast her down were now behind her.

Then she remembered an old saying her grandmother told her “ Baby, through trust you shall receive the thing you ask for in the present time and through hope you shall walk in the expected thing for your future blessing.

All from Luke 15:11