Don’t confuse all the healthy masks with healthy Christians. Many are suffering in silence or stuck in a history hurt. It’s not what happens to us, it’s what happens in us that keeps us stuck in pain. The event is passed, but we’re not released from the internal damage caused by what happened when we’re unable to grow forward.

Growing starts with acceptance — pain will come, people will do wrong. Accept that fact. They might not deserve forgiveness but you deserve your life, and that life comes through your forgiveness.

Second, we have to acknowledge what we learned from it — when we follow and focus on the lesson, the pain will eventually leave. Pain relies on our focus on the problem, instead of the lessons learned. When we let pain consume us, we push out faith, hope, joy, and potential.

Remember, pain is what happened because of what happened, misery is what we do to ourselves because of what happened. But your destiny is too important to live stuck in what happened.~~~~C&P from Bishop Larry Facebook page