On Being Mended: What if our Saviour had a blog?

This post is the follow-up from my post earlier this week

 https://velvetrollin.com/2021/12/22/on-mending/  

and is my Christmas message to everyone. Please read my earlier post to give you the background for this one.

What if our Saviour had a blog?

And what if on that blog He made a post one day about mending. How would his post
be different than mine?

Please know that I mean no disrespect in writing this post from an alternate perspective.

“Yesterday was a mending day, and today will be as well. I came to the Earth to mend.

I came to mend everyone.

Send me your mending.

I love mending.

Specifically, mending souls.

Why do I love mending souls?

The answer is in the details.

First thing this morning I mended a wonderful pair of souls whose relationship was damaged because they felt differently about getting a vaccine. I love them both, and they both made mistakes. This morning they both asked me and each other for forgiveness. They asked for my help mending their relationship and their souls. And I did. Except that what I offer is not just mended souls, but souls made new, better than they were before. Their relationship is renewed, their souls are renewed. Their new relationship has the added strength that comes from forgiveness, forgiveness of one another, and my forgiveness. I lovingly stitched them back together. I love these souls and they will love each other better because they have invested time and effort into mending their relationship so they can continue to grow.

Next I mended a soul who had lost hope, a soul sheltered in a body, a body that is sheltered only when a shelter is available. I know that most people don’t see or don’t care for these souls with holes in them, but I do. I wove this soul with the same care I wove you. This soul is worn and broken because of what has happened to it while on this Earth. Despite this soul’s brokenness this soul is wonderfully woven; generous and loving; one who lifts other broken souls and shares everything he has, my peace, my love and my joy. He is there to reach and lift those you will not reach and lift. But this morning he was broken. And so I mended him, through another soul, one who works at a shelter for homeless bodies housing precious souls. I often use souls to help mend other souls.

And this brings me to you. I know your soul is broken. You know your soul is broken. You are carrying a burden you do not have to carry. That is why I came to Earth. You celebrate my birth, you celebrate my Resurrection, but you don’t bring your broken heart to me, your broken soul to me, and let me mend it, let me renew you.

And so today I ask that you try a little experiment, even if you don’t believe in me, or don’t quite believe in me.

Let it go.

Yes I know this is now a song that the whole world sings, but it was a message from me long before now.

Bring me your sins, they do not serve you. Seek forgiveness then give them up. Ask for help if you need to. Let them go.

Bring me your mistakes, stop beating yourself up with them. You have learned from them. Let them go.

Bring me your hurts, I can heal them. Let them go.

Bring me your broken soul and be willing to have it made new.

My Atonement in the Garden of Gethsemane was a gift from me to you,

and everyone else.

My Atonement can make you new,

if you choose to let it.

And here’s the thing,

the repentance process and the ability to forgive others both renew your soul, freeing
you from past hurts and sins,

whether you believe in me or not.

Google the process, then follow it.

Give me a mustard seed of faith,

and I will help it grow,

until you do believe in me.

 

There is one additional thing you need to remember.

When you come to me to be made new,

you also have to forgive yourself,

and believe you are worthy,

believe that you were worth it for me,

that I would have suffered the Atonement for you,

if you were the only soul in the world.

Yes, I love you that much.

I came to heal you, not mend you, to renew you.

Let me heal you.”

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By choosing to mend us, to make us new, our Saviour has indicated He values us enough to do the work required to make us whole again.

And suddenly my resistance to being mended, to being healed, to being made new,

melts away,

and all it took,

was a change in perspective.

 

May we always remember the reason for this season, that our Saviour Jesus Christ came
to save our souls, because he loves us.

Merry Christmas from my soul to yours,

Love
Velvet

Living with More Joy everyday, especially when newly mended!