A New Legacy of Healing Can Start With Youনমুনা

From Ruin to Revival

Let’s start here: Jesus absolutely cares about your story. The actual one.

The real pain.

The sleepless nights.

The ache you don’t even know how to name.

He sees all of it. And he moves toward it, not away.

But your healing? It’s not just for you.

That might sound strange, especially if you're in the middle of it, still bleeding, still in process.

But the deeper reality is this: healing always spills over.

Into your home.

Your friendships.

Your church.

Even into generations you’ll never meet.

We talk a lot these days about generational trauma, and for good reason.

Unhealed pain has a way of reproducing.

Call it what you want: dysfunction, family patterns, baggage. It travels unless it’s transformed.

Dr. Gabor Maté put it like this, “The unfinished psychological business of the parent often becomes the burden of the child.” (7)

What isn’t healed gets handed down.

But here's the hopeful part: healing works the same way. It multiplies.

What Jesus touches, he makes whole. And when he heals you, he turns you into something Scripture calls a "person of peace" (Luke 10:6).

Not just someone who feels better, but someone who carries peace into rooms.

Someone who makes people feel safe, seen, human again.

That’s not abstract.

That’s your presence at the dinner table.

The way you speak to your kids.

The way your friend’s shoulders relax when they sit next to you.

It’s how your gentleness starts to shape the culture of your home.

Your honesty makes it okay for someone else to tell the truth.

Your courage to face your wounds gives someone else permission to face theirs.

It’s a ripple effect.

Think of the man in Mark 5.

Possessed.

Isolated.

Chained up, literally and figuratively.

Jesus meets him, restores him, and naturally, the man begs to stay close to Jesus. Who wouldn’t? But Jesus tells him, “Go home. Tell your people what God has done for you. How he’s had mercy on you.”

Why?

Because healing always carries a mission.

A healed person becomes a living invitation.

You don’t just talk about Jesus, you embody his mercy.

And when you do, things change.

That inherited bitterness?

It doesn’t get passed on to your kids.

That shame that used to choke out your joy?

It doesn’t sabotage your friendships anymore.

That silent, crushing anxiety that lived in your house growing up? You don’t pass it down. You interrupt it. You build something new.

The prophet Isaiah saw this coming; he spoke of a future where people would “...rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated…” (Isaiah 61:4, NIV)

That’s not just poetic language.

That’s your family line.

That’s your story.

Jesus isn’t here to patch you up.

He’s here to restore what’s been lost, even for generations.

The psychologist Carl Jung once said, “The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.” (8)

That hits deep.

But it doesn’t have to stay true.

You get to live fully, awake, present, whole. And in doing that, you give others permission to do the same.

Jesus told his disciples, “When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’ If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them…” (Luke 10:5-6, NIV)

That’s who you’re becoming.

A person who doesn’t just have peace but carries it.

Because you’ve let Jesus into your story.

Because you’ve done the hard work of healing.

Because your wounds don’t own you anymore.

And the legacy? Your healing today becomes someone else’s hope tomorrow.

Prayer

Jesus, thank You that my healing isn’t just for me. Thank You that You’re rewriting my story not only for my sake but for the sake of those I love, and those who will come after me. Make me a person of peace. Let my scars become a testimony that points others to You. Use my story to bring healing, hope, and renewal in my family, my church, and my community. Amen.

Reflection

Take a few minutes today to write down how you have seen your healing or the healing of another give hope to others.

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(7) Gabor Mate’, The Roots of Healing Teaching

(8) Carl Jung, Volume 17, The Development of Personality