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Hiding Scars or Revealing Wounds?
It’s easier to expose our scars than to reveal our wounds.
Scars show what we’ve survived. They are the evidence of healing — remnants of past pain that signal, “I made it through.” Whether from scrapes, surgeries, or infections, scars declare that pain was once present, and survival followed.
But wounds… wounds are different.
Wounds are open, raw, and ongoing. They still hurt.
And most people don’t want to look at someone who is still bleeding.
The Unseen Battle
Many of us fight daily in spiritual and emotional trenches.
We are at war with invisible forces — “principalities, powers, and rulers of the darkness” — and often, we bear no physical sign of our suffering. The world looks at us and sees wholeness. They see strength. They don’t see the fatigue, the brokenness, or the silent wrestling.
Years of internal war can make a soul both stronger and sharper. It carves out our empathy. It refines our patience into a holy intolerance for deception and injustice. But that kind of strength? It’s unpopular. And truth spoken too boldly will often leave one standing alone.
