Children tend to assume that nothing is happening because they don’t see anything happening. But as people grow and learn, they generally develop an understanding of gradual processes. Let’s apply that understanding to the work God is doing with survivors.

It’s often very slow so that healing can be very solid. Sometimes when it doesn’t progress as we expected we tend to feel disappointed or angry, and we may even forget that God’s “ways are not our ways” (Isaiah 55:8). As supporters, we may think we need to step in and fix something. Or we look for a way to make things happen faster, or we think the apparent delay is our fault, or we decide it’s our responsibility to create healing.

Let’s just be sure to do what God calls each of us to do. Then we can continue to pray for and support survivors, confident that God is yet busy in their lives and that God’s way is the best way. Even if we don’t see the growth we expected. And let’s ask the good Lord to help us believe (Mark 9:24).

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