healer

He restores my soul.
- Psalm 23:3a (NKJV)
 
In 2019, while hiking in Spearfish Canyon, I slipped on a wet, mossy rock and broke my leg. Not a clean, easy-to-fix break, but both bones—one shattered and the other fractured. That fall resulted in being medivac’d off the mountain, followed by not one but two excruciating nine-hour rides to get home. Surgery placed a plate and eight pins in my leg, but complications followed—an infection that went into the bone, and then a pulmonary embolism that nearly ended my life.
Broken bones like this normally take six to eight weeks to heal, but with all the complications, it took six months for me. Healing became a long, exhausting process that tested my patience, my faith, and my strength in ways I wasn’t prepared for.
In Psalm 23, David reminds us that God is Jehovah-Rapha—the Lord who heals. Sometimes healing is physical, and sometimes it is emotional or spiritual. And often, it is not quick. Restoration takes time. God does not rush the process, nor does He abandon us in it.
“He restores my soul” speaks to a deeper healing—one that reaches beyond what is visible. Jehovah-Rapha works gently and intentionally, mending not only what is broken in our bodies, but what has been worn down in our hearts. He meets us in the slow recovery, the setbacks, and the waiting, restoring us piece by piece.
Healing may not come on our timeline, but it always comes from His hand.
 
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