A Story of Hope

I came, or I should say, God brought me to, Healing Hearts ministry in a roundabout way. Dreadfully, I had been unfaithful to my husband. I had told him the truth, and thankfully we had been led to a Christian therapist to begin to address things.

I knew that I need something aside from the therapy we were receiving as a couple. With the weight of what I had done in my heart and mind, our therapist suggested Healing Hearts to me. It took me a time of thinking and prayer of asking God if this was the thing I needed to do. In fact, another avenue of individual therapy for me had not panned out. I remember when praying about HH one time, a ’’green light’’ popped into my head. God was telling me to move on this.

My HH mentor, Mary, has been wonderful and needed. Having her to share my story with, encourage me, give feedback, pray over me, has been such a great blessing.

The study itself taught me many things. I came to it as a ’’seasoned’’ Christian. But there was much more to learn. I found myself reminded of a lot of things that I already knew as a believer, but that were brought forward and shown to me in a new light. There were the new realizations, new truths, new insights, that the study helped me discover. It made me look back, dig in, and examine things in new ways.

I learned so much about the past, and how that affected the present. And how the enemy attacks us, distorts, lies to us. I could list here all the things I learned, which I did actually on a piece of paper if you want to know. To summarize though, I would say that HH really harnesses the true and complete healing that only Christ can bring to our hearts.

My sin is great and profound and I learned I was capable of dreadful things. But God is greater, and can bring beauty from ashes, transformation, redemption.

One main stand out lesson to me was that I don’t have to try to forgive myself. I let God forgive me and HE is the one who can heal my broken integrity. I also have a strong sense of God using my story. I’m waiting on Him to show me how. He did very plainly tell me that I would need to lay down my shame, in order to tell it. I will do that in order to bring Him glory and to help others.

Healing Hearts is so worth the time and energy. It is transformative in the best ways and uses the Truth of God, His love, Jesus’ work of forgiveness, to bring about deep and authentic hope and healing, to any circumstance and brokenness.