Life’s journey’s takes us down many unknown, dark and winding roads. As we travel down those roads, we encounter many bumps in the roadway that try to stop us in our tracks, and make us want to give up. These bumps are the scars, pain, and trauma that are thrown at us through life situations. When we encounter pain, sometimes it leaves us emotionally scared, which causes our foundation to crack or chip away one piece at a time. Physical scars leave marks on our bodies that we can cover up with makeup, surgery, or other means of disguise. Today I want us to deal with these emotional scars because these scars can no longer be covered up. These scars run so deep that they reach deep down to our soul. When emotional scars are not dealt with, they hide in our soul, and show up as uninvited sadness, depression, anger, resentment, fear, sickness etc. You find yourself in toxic relationships, toxic jobs, and even encounter toxic family dynamics because you have allowed the emotional scars to stay hidden for so long deep down inside of you. We allow the fear of digging up the root cause, as well as the fear of facing the hurt and pain we have encountered to stop us short of our healing. When something happens that triggers us and the pain is unearthed, we allow ourselves to be put back in an unstable emotional state.
In order to heal we must acknowledge the pain and bruising that has been experienced. All of this takes sacrifice and hard work. First you have to start with admitting that you have been hurt, and began to dig deep down within to uncover the root of the problem. I know we all have faced some hard and potentially terrifying things, but you have to walk down this path of healing in order to become whole. As we begin the healing process, the only way to fulfill that is to deal with the untreated issues. If these issues are left untreated just like any other wound, it will continue to bleed unto sickness and death.

Death is not just our physical life, but every part of you. I know that pain is unpleasant and sometimes gets lonely traveling back down that road of hurt. Your scars and wounds tell a story, and we are in a season where we need to heal so that we can live flourishing lives. The situations we encounter were meant to destroy, damage, and kill us. Even though we fought, and did not give up in the process we were left with battle scars. We do not all go through the same kind of pain. Just know when you encounter pain you are not alone because everyone encounters different types of pain at some point. The battle scars are left to make us feel bad, unworthy, or unattractive, but we have to embrace those scars by admitting what has happened. As we began to heal, we will start to see the scars as beauty marks. The scars will remind you that you made it out of the fire. The scars are beautiful, they make us strong, and are the proof that we did not quit but rather bounced back. Take what was suppose to keep you scared and damaged and begin your healing, so you can walk in your purpose and be free.

Natashia Bobbitt