From PlayGrounds to Psychwardsਨਮੂਨਾ

Day 3: When Healing Takes Time

Healing is rarely instant. More often, it comes slowly. So slowly that you can’t always see the progress while you’re living in it. That was true for me (Amanda). After leaving the psychiatric hospital, the fog didn’t immediately lift. Depression lingered. Anxiety followed me like a shadow. Some days were better; some days felt like I had slid backwards.

It was frustrating. I wanted a miracle. I wanted to wake up one morning and feel like myself again. But instead, God took me on a slow journey of rebuilding, one small step, one quiet day, one hard moment at a time.

One afternoon, as I sat alone at a piano in the hospital, I played a few random notes and sang a simple line that came from a place deeper than words:

“It’s going to get better. Jesus is better. It’s going to get better.”

It wasn’t a breakthrough. It wasn’t a dramatic turning point. But it was a seed. It was a reminder that healing doesn’t always look like a sudden sunrise. Sometimes it looks like a tiny flicker of hope in a dark room.

We often expect God to work fast. We want the anxiety gone, the sadness lifted, the confusion erased. But God often works in the slow places, the waiting, the quiet, the in-between. He heals layer by layer, moment by moment, breath by breath.

The Israelites wandered for 40 years. Elijah waited for God in a whisper. Jesus often healed people in stages, not instantly.

Slow healing is still healing.

Small progress is still progress.

If you’re in a season of slow recovery, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, don’t despise the pace. God is in it. His timing isn’t proof that He’s distant; it’s proof that He’s thorough. He’s rebuilding what broke. He’s restoring your strength. And even if you can’t feel it happening, He is working beneath the surface, bringing life back to places you thought were lost forever.

Reflection Questions:

Where has healing felt slow in your life, and how might God be inviting you to trust Him in the process rather than the pace?