Y’all know I love me a good analogy and can catch a message from just about anything in nature, well today is no different. I got my message from a scratch on my leg. Let me tell you about it.

So when you have an injury, especially one that breaks the skin after it’s done bleeding and cleaned it begins to heal and forms a scab. It’s ugly but it’s needed to heal. It’s formed from the blood that spilled the first time and it gets hard to keep what’s underneath safe.

But then it starts itching, whew it ITCHES honey! I dont care how much I try to ignore the itch, it won’t stop. I can try ointments, rubbing it, patting it but baby this is an itch that has to be scratched! I can scratch around it, through my clothes and it still itches. It really doesn’t change at all until….until I scratch it so much I break the scab, and sometimes I begin to bleed again.

Well in life we have scars and they itch when healing too. It’s kinda why healing is always used in present tense for me. I won’t claim healed ever. The past still itches and sometimes I scratch my scab off and my heart hurts and bleeds like it did the first time it was injured. Maybe not as bad but it bleeds a little bit and the wound it’s no doubt reopened. So how do you deal?

A scar was reopened for me yesterday. It’s been itching, I suppressed my emotions and ignored my feelings. I truly tried to move forward, head high, nope I got snatched right up. I mean something I thought I was SO over had me in an UGLY cry baby. Eyes puffy, used about a roll of tissue, appetite gone just stuck in a pain I thought I was healed/healing from.

This happens to us all, but whenever it does we all act embarrassed like it’s just us. Nah son, we all go through being hurt by the same shit. Just like on our physical body’s, our hearts may itch to tell us it’s healing wrong. Maybe the skin gotta break again to get something out so it WOULDNT be sealed in, is that why when it creates another scab it doesn’t itch? Maybe we weren’t handling the wound properly and we got it infected, we gotta clean it up and start over. Either way the itch is to bring the scar to our attention and to deal with it.

So if one of your scabs come off because you scratched the itch, please note that this is simply a part of your healing.

Ase’