Jan 15, 2010
Time heals all wounds?
Like this post?
Only grieving can heal grief. The passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without…grief, will not heal it.
Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies, 68
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Agree!!
I remember the day I realized that the saying “Time heals” is incomplete, because time alone rarely heals.
Does she offer any basis or some sort of substantial evidence for this? Sounds like an insightful saying, but I have a hard time seeing seeing her point. Not that I necessarily disagree, it’s just that it seems rather hard to validate.
I think what she’s saying is that if you don’t grieve, you’re not facing the core of what it is that’s causing you pain. If you just try to forget about it or run from it, it’ll just keep creeping back up on you and bring you down.
Love Anne Lamott. Love that book. And I agree with the quote.
Not all grief will be healed by time. Not even by time plus grieving. Most grief will only heal in timeless eternity
This is a timely word for me.
Thanks for posting it.
I like what Ravi Zacharias has said on the subject. Something along the lines of “time does not become the healer but rather the revealer of God’s reason and grace”
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Only Jesus Christ can heal the deepest wound, the most broken of hearts. Time heals nothing.