Wounds of Wisdom

You've heard of words of wisdom, I am here to talk about wounds of wisdom. We have all been wounded somehow. There are children who suffered abusive childhoods, women who have suffered awful marriages, and people who suffer at the hands of others. A few get out of this life unscathed; however, we all have suffered some wounds for the most part. Though pain is hard to forget, we need to remember that pain is part of nature’s wisdom that teaches us strength. 

I think people believe that the wounds pain gives are evil and should not happen to people; however, pain is inevitable and happens to people often. Pain is there to wake us up. You gain strength and experience from pain. Some people allow pain to define them. They become emotionally crippled because they cannot step into their power and allow pain to make them wise and strong.

Pain needs to be attended to. Unattended pain is like leaving an open wound to get infected. If you have a physical wound, you tend to it. You clean it, bandage it, and try to keep the infection out. We tend to care for our physical pain promptly by seeing a doctor or getting some medication. With emotional pain, we tend to ignore it and allow the scares to get deeper and deeper. We forget it needs to be tended to as well.

A harsh word can cut like a knife but can heal. Some people will take a harsh word and allow it to crush them for a lifetime. Rather than putting that kind of energy into feeling wounded, why not take that energy and move it forward? We should dance in the wisdom the wounds offer us rather than allow the wounds to crush us, and we should hold onto them as if our very lives depended on them. 

When emotional wounds do not heal, we may fear the wisdom they hold. How can we gain wisdom from an experience that we feel is permanent and inescapable? Well, the answer is to be willing to learn that wounds have wisdom, enough strength, and the desire to move through memory and experience peace.

Wounds produce wisdom only if you are willing to allow the past to catapult you into healing and focus your energy on the knowledge and wisdom you have gained. Practice gratitude and positivity while participating in forgiveness, and soon, you will see the wounds of wisdom.