When you are healing from a parent's absence

God heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Psalm 147:3

When you are healing from a parent's absence. Nobody puts that on a vision board, but people live it every day. Before action comes agreement, so notice what you are agreeing with. The old script is strongest when it never has to answer to Scripture. Healing does not require you to pretend the wound never mattered. Your pain can be acknowledged while your identity remains anchored in Jesus Christ. You can make a different choice before you feel completely different. One truthful response can keep the old pattern from writing another page.

What would you choose if you were not trying to protect the familiar pattern? What answer would require genuine change?

Jesus Christ, I place both the clear part and the confusing part before You. Keep my emotions from becoming my master, and teach me to follow You in this. Amen.