Child Abuse Trauma Therapy - Are We Ever Finished Healing?

Jesus said, "It is finished!" as he hung on the cross. But in life, when do we know when the process we are going through or the journey we are taking or the healing we are enduring ..... is finished? Is finished really the ultimate goal to seek?

Am I alive or dead? Am I realistic or idealistic? Am I truthful or hiding?

Will there ever be a time to take the last pill, never having to place another refill, never going to another doctor?

When do we say, "Goodbye, thank you for all you have done." to our counselor?

My question is....

"Are we ever really finished healing?"

I mean, isn't something always going to be wrong with our thinking, our body, our emotions on this side of heaven? I am more and more believing that we reach plateaus. We feel the crushing weight of needing help, we are exhausted, down, afraid, unsure, confused, overwhelmed.... but does this mean we are not well.

"It is Well With My Soul" was written and sung by a man that had lost just lost his wife and children .... I think this explains the God Worldview perspective of "how are you?". Truly we are doing so "well" in our soul but that doesn't mean nothing painful is happening or that we are sunshiny smiling.

So what is the  point? It is personal, not generic. It is relational, not static. It is full - body, soul and spirit, not isolated to one part but whole.

God is the one to lead you along the way... the ebb and flow of high pressure challenging times and slow restorative rests. He knows what you need next. But God will never leave any one simply hanging, ideal, in a time of nothing-ness. Every  moment is full of His powerful potential for transformation - it is up to us to remain and abide inter-active, embedded in Him.

When are you finished? When is healing done for you?