Finding Healing for Holiness and Healthy Relationships
Finding Healing for Holiness and Healthy Relationships. We all share a call to holiness, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church points out, and the Scriptural basis for this comes from Ephesians 1:4, where we hear that we were chosen in Jesus by the Father before the world even came to be. That means we are set apart for Him. We are made for a profound union with Him body, mind, and spirit for all eternity. Even as intimate as marriage is, it only symbolizes the union we will have with God forever. In Heaven, those who are married in this life will no longer be married to a human spouse. Yet, the espousal relationship with the Lord will remain for eternity. Connection is our most basic human need. When we experience it, we flourish and suffer when we are lacking in that way. No connection will ever be so profound and complete as what we are called to with the Lord.
What comprises connection? It’s being chosen, known as an individual who is very good, value inherently, not based on what we do, and being safe with our boundaries being respected. God supplies for these connection needs superabundantly beyond what we could ever hope for or imagine. We have a God-sized whole within us because we were made for Him, and only He can satisfy these needs. Sadly, parents or early caregivers often modeled something for us that was less than a good image of God, so it became difficult for us to believe that He relates to us in these ways. So, how we relate to ourselves became flawed as we began to relate to ourselves in the way we were related.
Yet, these must be chosen, known, valued, protected, and provided for to remain as central as ever. Much of the disappointment, frustration, and conflict we see in our world is because people are trying to get other people to fill those needs. However, it’s only in receiving the Lord’s deep satisfaction of these needs that will allow us to live lives of profound freedom, joy, and peace.
Let’s take these areas of pain and hurt to the Lord and allow Him to show us the truth of who we are in Him. Receive your Eternal Bridegroom into your heart this day. Give yourself to the One who left Heaven to purchase you at the price of His Precious Blood and loves you personally and intimately beyond your wildest hopes or imaginings.
May the Lord give you peace.
Margaret
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