Before I did the study, I was wracked with guilt. Past decisions haunted me and the joy had been sucked out of my life. While I'm not back to where I was yet, Healing Hearts definitely allowed me to exhale and rest in the fact that I am forgiven and loved. God does care about me - even in the midst of sin and tragedy - and I can count on that. It also allowed me to see, for the first time, some of the damage I had caused. This goes beyond just sexual sin, but also are things I've said to other people. It's made me much more conscious of how I speak and what I do. It also caused me to not be so darned ego-centric about things! For years I thought about the ways people had hurt me, but never turned that around and thought about the hurt I might have caused others. It was a great way to get face to face with my sin and ask forgiveness. There were a lot of tears and a lot of pain, but it opened up those old wounds that I had been carrying and allowed them to heal properly.
