I have some quotes from Come Closer by Jane Rubietta.
“This healing required attending support groups every week for years, studying and living in the connection between soul growth and emotional health, and choosing day after day to do the hard work of trusting, talking, feeling. It meant tending to the wounds as they occurred rather than allowing them to fester, and always, always, it meant putting my relationship with Christ first. ” Pg. 64
I have attended support groups and learned how to work through my hurts and pains. I believe that God uses the people in our lives to heal and nurture us.
“Part of catching up is figuring out how our paralysis benefits us. For instance, if you were paralyzed at emotional adolescence, and now when you blow up in anger, you get your way or get attention or get left alone, how does this get you what you really want? How can you discern your real and legitimate needs and longings, and get them met in adult-appropriate, Christlike ways?” Pg.67
“How will you cooperate with the healing Christ comes to bring you? Will it be exercising forgiveness? Visiting a doctor? Accountability with addictions? A support group or counseling or mentoring or a wise listening partner?
It’s never too late to become whole, never too late to receive the healing Jesus lives to offer. ‘I will come and heal you,’ Jesus says to us, as he said to the centurion about the servant.” Pg.72
“Through the power of the Holy Spirit, God uses failed, flawed, fallen people to effect change in this world. Never lose the wonder of being just that type of woman-a woman who has failed and been forgiven, though flawed is being repaired, though fallen and has been picked up, who knows that God is impacting others through her ordinary days.” Pg. 120
She also has some great poetry that I am not listing here.