dailydatewithgod

It has been my experience and because of it I believe all things are restored in love. Whatever it is that we feel we have lost or is broken by our experiences in the world, God will bring the gift of restoration. If it is something we have been designed with, there is nothing the world can do to keep the restoration from happening.  As an incest survivor who has and continues to walk through facing what seemed like the destruction of my sense of innocence, a sense that my body is my own, and the understanding that I get to say what is okay and not okay in my body and in my life, it is crucial for me to believe that God restores all those elements to me.  I have moved through many phases in this process of recovery which could be called a process of restoration to the eyes of God.  It is about letting go of my perception of  loss and realize it was a disconnection.  A disconnection that I initiated because it was safer to do so than face the unfathomable reality of what I was experiencing.  God however, did not see the same loss.  God held for safe keeping all that has always been mine gifted by Him at my creation.  She never bought into the idea that I was separate from my sense of safety, being a sexual being, or having a voice to say what is okay with me and what is not.  God provides the restoration to show me that I no longer have to believe the lies I created in order to survive.  In my experience, whatever our challenges in life are, we have all had some sense of brokenness and loss in need of restoration. The beauty of the experience is realizing all we need to initiate the restoration is to acknowledge that God has it ready and waiting when we are willing to let go of our perception.