Quotes about Recovery

Loss does different things to different people. Some fall apart. Some, like the Finder, rebuild. I have done both. I have crawled under my table and refused to come out. I have covered myself with thorns and tattoos. I have planted a garden, reached out to my neighbors, begun to write down my story.

I'm getting better. I'm improving. My health is coming back," those words began to create a new image on the inside. Before long, they started seeing themselves strong, healthy, and whole.

When you see how God restores you, how He pays you back for what was unfair, how He brings you out better, your mourning is going to be turned to dancing, your sorrow turned to joy, that weeping turned to laughter.

Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.

Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk.

They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.

Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.

Look at the things you've done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.

Some wounds broke open and had to be stitched closed with patience and prayer.

My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text.

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.