Drops of Joy – A Devotional Journey of Healing — Update 10
It is easy to fall into the trap of denial. Recognizing your own error stings. We don’t like stinging reality. We shy away from taking hard looks at our thoughts and behaviors, but we can’t learn and grow from our mistakes without self-inspection and taking responsibility for what is truly our part. We want to believe the best about ourselves; and we want to believe the best of those who say they love us.
The enigma comes in discerning who it is that truly loves us. I spent almost 34 years in that quandary, until the damage done outweighed my argument that the one doing the damage loved me. He proved it by the look in his eyes, a look I had failed to see before. It was a chilling realization that he truly wanted to physically hurt me. I will never forget what I saw in his eyes.
Don’t let denial trap you into believing a lie.
From the book:
“Denial
What you’re saying is unnerving.
It is really quite disturbing,
And I don’t want to hear it.
Though you speak for my good measure,
You are messing with my pleasure.
And I don’t want to hear it.
I would rather face my plight.
I deny that you are right,
And I don’t want to hear it.
I’ll pretend that I don’t hear;
Put my fingers in my ears,
Because I don’t want to hear it!”
(Taylor, Joy S., Drops of Joy – A Devotional Journey of Healing, 2026, Lily of the Valley Publishing Services, Indiana, pp. 24-25)
Come and join me on this journey of God’s healing. May a piece of my past lead you to a better future through God’s intervention. Read. Pray. Heal.
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Joy S Taylor is a follower of Christ, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. Her workdays were spent using the Master of Science in Accounting degree that God graciously allowed at the age of, well, greater than 40. She led a divorce recovery support group sponsored by her church for seven years, and spent more than a decade in leadership roles for Celebrate Recovery and Care Net, using what God had done in her life to point others to the healing only Jesus gives. Now retired, she concentrates on writing for Jesus from her beloved hickory grove in Indiana, yet devotes some of her time to volunteering.