Are you thankful for your scars?

 

Scars by I Am They on GodTube

Are you thankful for your scars? I know I am! While not always easy, they teach us so much about life, God, and ourselves. Sometimes hard and painful. But we learn the truth about life and often when hurt or with scars, we grow and even grow closer to God. What a blessing! Thank you for this song and message! It is a great one to always remember. I so appreciate your music and discipleship for Christ!  We have all gone through tough times in life. I know I have now in my 60's. We all have a lot of scars. Scars from our upbringing. From things not being fair. From poor treatment from family, friends, and coworkers.  From health problems and illnesses. To people taking advantage of you and hurting you. We all have our scars. I know they all help us grow. Sometimes they bring us to God, to know Jesus better, to be better people. Sometimes they do just the opposite. Often our brokenness can bring us to God, to know Jesus. Suffering, pain, scars, hurt, unfairness, illness, they are all things that can help us grow closer to Jesus as He knew all of this too. While I have had a blessed career over all, so many wonderful students [thousands] and many teaching awards, with over 100 peer-reviewed papers in my career, even nominated for Professor Emeritus, just so much service and hard work over the years as an educator. I experienced a lot of envy, jealousy, and insecurity projected toward me in my work toward the end of my career. I am a Catholic and conservative and would not join the woke hate club or their union, and was cancelled the last few years before I retired, it was not easy. However, my work offered us an early retirement incentive with almost another year and two summers of pay and I decided to retire after 28.5 years at my workplace, almost 40 as an educator. It was all a blessing. Although I had a blessed career, and a bit of a sad ending of cancel culture, no retirement celebration, or real send off. I saw the reality of humanity today. Even my parents disappointed me somewhat, as my older and younger brothers got both of the two houses my parents owned, me being the middle child who went to college, moved away, lived overseas, spent almost 30 years in Florida as a professor far away from NY got so little from my parent's estate, it seemed unfair, but I moved away. I was blessed with a wonderful career and my parents were wonderful and taught me to know Jesus. So many are mean spirited, hateful, envious, jealous, and insecure, there is a lot of this today. A lot of unhappy, woke, negative, hateful people living in misery who want you to join their hate clubs. But I wouldn't. I won't. God taught me so much through all of this. He made me stronger, a better person. He taught me about love, about being positive, loving, prayerful, grateful, and joyful in the Lord, this I have now and I am thankful for my scars! God is so good to me! I even feel He wants me to do this blog as part of my discipleship for Christ. I have had many miracles in my life as mentioned on this blog, and I am so thankful for my scars and everything in life! God really has been so good to me!  Thank you Jesus, Heaven changes everything! https://themiraclesofgod.blogspot.com/