~ Kaka Lucas, Tue 8 March 2022

What picture or pictures do you have on your wall that may need to either be removed completely, shifted from one wall to the next or they may need to be balanced for better view? ……….. Or maybe your wall needs to be repainted to brighter colors? …. Who knows.

Life depends on the pictures we may be hanging on our walls, physically, mentally, emotionally or even spiritually. The thoughts that linger in our minds and heart. Words that become rhythmic from our tongue. And actions that are louder than our words. What are they reflecting? Those looking and when you look, what you are you seeing?

So this morning, father come to ‘fass’ in my room. He ask me to change a pictures I had on the walls of my room. One was a bright picture of a lady and another one was a little dark picture of a Jamaican home front Yard. Since he is not as color blind as I am, I went ahead and moved, and boom while removing …… a wave of thought just slap my face.

Is that not how life is? Sometimes we hang the wrong picture on the wrong side of the wall. Other times the picture as beautiful as it may look, it leaning on one side…. and for that reason, it takes another eye to see it and make a move, say it to us and everything just brightens up? the picture turns us to look even better or best than it was before? (smile-and wonder smile because this is damn true)

Contemplating on Matthew Kelly’s chapter “The worst year of my life” where he wrote, “Some of the experiences leave me sad, others leave me disappointed and heartbroken, there are some that make me hungry for revenge, some just leave me a little jaded, and I have allowed others to make me more cynical than I would like. It was a season of tragedy and betrayal in my life, and I will never be the same. The most difficult of these experiences have left me deeply wounded—so wounded, that some days, I stare at my scars in disbelief, and I wonder how wounds so brutal didn’t kill me.”

Contemplating these words in my way, the incident from this morning just brushed all the dust from my head. It takes an open mind to allow the brush across the head. Healing doesn’t come straight from heaven. Healing comes from the heaven through the very people who God wants to use to heal us. The point is, do we allow ourselves to be brushed off the pain whichever way? Are we conscious when the healing is taking place? Could there be a picture that is hindering our healing? Then it’s high time to pull it down and erect new bright one on your wall.

Don’t let people and season hang agly pictures on your wall. If when straightened they still look ugly, pull them off, give them away and move on unapologetically. It’s high time to bloom back and be the man, the woman, boy or girl God created you to be. Let your pictures be bright, attractive and in the right wall.

Lord, please heal my broken and wounded heart. Fill me with the peace and joy I know can only come from You during this Lent season. Walk closely beside me during my journey to Calvary and my journey to healing and recovery that I know is possible through Your power alone. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.