By Hannah L. Halverson
Sifting through the rubble of trauma can produce a mountain of confusing emotions. As you dig through the pain, complicated feelings can rise to the surface. The gravity of these emotions can then pull you into the crevice of grief; a trench so deep that you begin to question what it is you are searching for as you become buried under everything you feel.
Sifting through the pain of trauma is a chaotic emotional process. It is as if you feel everything and nothing all at once as the chaotic chasm of what exists in the present collides with remnants of the past. As reality around you crumbles, you begin to sift through the devestation, searching for answers. You grow weary and tired in the search, and reach a point of surrender.
As you dig through the memories of grief, trying to control the emotions can feel like you are sifting through sand. As you surrender and let go of what you can’t control, God reveals one truth at a time…the treasure hidden in the process. The sifting was never meant to discover the answers, but to find healing.
Trauma…the way to move on…is to sift through.
“I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who summons you by name.”
Isaiah 45:3 NIV
Scattered Rubies 