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When we suffer wounds, especially traumatic wounds (fired from a job, a divorce, loss of a loved one, abuse, etc.) God can bring healing.<\/p>\n

Healing takes time and often the most healing comes through others who have suffered the same kind of wounding.<\/p>\n

Wounding changes us however. It leaves scars.<\/p>\n

But scars are not wounds. Scars are what remain when the wounds heal.<\/p>\n

Don’t pick at the scar. You will cause another wound, but that new wound will be different than the wound that caused the scar.<\/p>\n

Instead accept the change that the wounding imposed.<\/p>\n

Do this and the future opens again, albeit in a new way.<\/p>\n

God heals the wounded, but He works with the scarred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we suffer wounds, especially traumatic wounds (fired from a job, a divorce, loss of a loved one, abuse, etc.) God can bring healing.<\/p>\n

Healing takes time and often the most healing comes through others who have suffered the same kind of wounding.<\/p>\n

Wounding changes us however. It leaves scars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1897],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13520,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13515\/revisions\/13520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}