Repentance is real

I remember when I was younger I ended up dropping a rock on my heel (don't ask how I managed that) and I got a pretty good gash on it. We rushed to the hospital to see what would be needed. My mother kept saying that it was likely I would get stitches. I didn't like the idea of getting needle and thread put through my cut and then later having them cut the thread out. When we arrived, they determined to put stitches in. I was worried. The nurse assured me that she would put numbing ointment on it so I wouldn't feel it. I did. It didn't hurt too much I am sure, but at the time, I thought that it hurt a lot! I left with 7 stitches and I was feeling pretty good that it was all over. Then I remembered! I remembered that they would have to cut the stitches out when it had healed! When I vocalized this concern my mother reassured me, "They actually won't have to do that because the cut wasn't very deep! These stitches are dissolve-able!"
"Dissolve-able!" I thought, "That's genius!"

During the following weeks I was careful to not disturb the cut and to keep it safe. The stitches slowly faded and became part of me! I was amazed!

Upon reflecting on this I realize that when we are hurt spiritually, the Savior Jesus Christ can heal us. No matter how deep the cut is, no matter how worried or hurt you are about it, he will make it right. All it takes is us going to get His help. If I had stayed there with the cut and ignored it, it would have gotten infected and to the point that I wouldn't be able to ignore it any longer. Yet, very often that is the case today. We hide our cuts and tell ourselves they will go away. They hurt us and weigh us down but we trudge on...

As Nephi of the Book of Mormon states " Awake, my soul! No longer droop in sin. Rejoice, O my heart, and give place no more for the enemy of my soul."

We cannot be OK with these cuts. They can be healed. The healing power that is used can even become part of us- just as my stitches did. Christ did die for us and it is through him that we are healed.

The Atonement is real.

Examine your life. Are there unresolved cuts? Do you need to be healed? If unsure, ask God in prayer. He will answer you.