A Blessing for Healing from Trauma

Yesterday’s traumas do not define you!

Former sorrows do not confine you!

I bless you to live in this moment!

Thirty years ago

I watched in my rearview mirror

As I sat in my Toyota Corolla

Trapped in a traffic,

Nowhere to go

And saw a car speeding too fast toward me

That, inevitably, was going to hit me…

And it did.

It didn’t total me or the car

But for months I couldn’t stop

Looking in the rearview mirror

Expecting someone else to rear end me.

Trauma is like that.

It affects your soul,

It rewires your brain,

To be anxious and hyper-vigilant.

No one has ever crashed into me again—

What a waste to be worrying about it.

Beloved, no matter what has hit you in the past,

Your life isn’t in the rearview mirror—

Your life is here, today—now.

By the grace of God,

The old is gone,

The new has come!