I poked myself in the eye this morning with my eyebrow brush. I guess I was trying to brush my eye, not a good idea if you ever feel curious.
As my damaged right eye was full of tears and agony it was refusing to open, so it fell to my other eye to pick up the slack of being responsible for sight, a job it didn't really seem up to. It was having sympathy squinting issues I think. As I was blow drying my hair in the dark (I had this odd notion that darkness would make my eye less sensitive to the distress it was experiencing) I couldn't believe that I had done this to myself.
It's been a few hours and righty is much better now. She's open and blinking normally, no tears, so that's neat. It made me think some hurts resolve quicker than others...
Let's leave physical injury off the table. Here is a question to ponder: Are there mental and emotional hurts that never resolve or, more specifically, are there mental and emotional hurts that will never be resolved here on this side of eternity? Are there pains that we will just have to bear till we die?
Activities in self-analysis and introspection are beneficial and necessary but those things only identify a problem, or identify a pattern of thinking, or identify a way we are processing the world that might not be helpful. What resolves a hurt once it is identified? What transforms the way a person is in the world from one way, a way they have known all their life perhaps, to a better and different way?
I am not sure what transforms but I know Who. Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3). "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life" (John 3:16) We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord (2 Corinthians 3:18).
