SCARS HAVE A STORY TO TELL

Scars recall old wounds. But they also offer encouragement. They remind us that in those moments when we could have played it safe, we chose to take a risk. When we could have chosen the easy way out, we decided to stay and struggle. When times got tough, we didn’t run and hide. Instead, we succumbed to the brutality of the moment, persisted through the pain, and survived to tell about it.

Often, life’s most formative experiences are not the triumphs on the mountain top, but those born in the crucible of our deepest anguish.

Those are the moments that stretched us until we thought we would break, bruised us until we thought we were bloodless, and pushed us until we thought we would never stand again.

But the scars remind us that we did more than survive.

We experienced the most powerful and central of Christian realities – the resurrection.

Jesus survived the crucifixion to show others the scars as proof of the resurrection.

Quote: “There is a big difference between a wound and a scar. A scar says, ‘I’ve been healed, and this is my story.” – Sharon Jaynes