Healing Before Harvest

You can’t bear fruit when you’re still bleeding on others.

Healing must come before harvest.

A wounded branch cannot nurture what it’s meant to grow

until it’s been restored by the Gardener.

You can’t pour life into others

when the cup you’re pouring from is cracked and leaking.

You can’t speak peace

when chaos still reigns in your own heart.

God never called us to hide our wounds

He called us to bring them to Him.

Because what you conceal, He cannot heal.

And what you surrender, He can redeem.

It’s not enough to say, “I’m sorry.”

Apologies mend the surface,

but only repentance transforms the root.

Before behavior can change,

the heart must be confronted.

You have to trace the pain back to its origin

and invite the Healer into the soil of your soul.

Like a flower suffocated by its own dead blooms,

you will wither quickly if you refuse to prune what’s dying within you.

Old hurts rot the roots if they’re never released.

But when you let the Master Gardener remove the decay,

He makes room for new life to grow.

Healing begins with stillness.

It’s found in the quiet moments of reflection

in journaling the traumas,

in confessing the hidden pain,

in laying down what you were never meant to carry.

Because God isn’t afraid of your wounds.

He tends to them.

He binds them.

He breathes over them until they bloom again.

The same hands that formed Eden

still know how to restore what’s broken in you.

You just have to acknowledge the wound

and place it back in His care.

Let Him prune you.

Let Him heal you.

Let Him teach you that restoration always precedes fruitfulness.

Because the Gardener doesn’t discard wounded branches.

He mends them.

And when He’s done,

they bear fruit that will last. (John 15:1–2)