Day Four // February 20 // Perfectly Wounded “Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.” – Sir Thomas Moore –
Ours scars tell a story. On my foot, there’s a tender patch that betrays the time I stepped on a broken bottle. On my knee, proof of a biking mishap. On my hands and arm and eye, little reminders of pains long past. Our scars tell a story. And so do Jesus’. His head, wounded by thorns. His hands and feet, pierced by nails. His sacred side, the target of a Roman spear. And He did it all for us. He endured it so that we might know the love of God, so that we might see the lengths to which Heaven would go (and still goes) to redeem the earth. He chose to suffer in His body so that ours might be healed – healed from the sin-sickness that comes from being human.
