Healing Wounds Quotes

“Patient exposure to Christ’s work and promise makes us see that expectation of this kind is fatuous. The Lamb of God takes sin away not by brandishing a wand but by picking it up and carrying it.6 I in turn am summoned to bear my own load.7 In so far as I do this in communion with Christ, a member of his body,8 I shall find my load reconfigured. It will stay recognizably what it is, but the yoke it represents will be easy, its burden light.9 That which before seemed to crush me will buoy me up. I shall be set in a movement of ascent. A sun will arise out of my darkness with healing in its wings,10 allowing my wounds, as they heal, mysteriously to flourish.”
― Erik Varden, Healing Wounds