Recovery

I think my heart is healing. The revelation hit me a few weeks ago that healing is a painful process. When you have surgery, the sickness or damage is removed or repaired. But then you have to recover and its just as much blood, sweat, and tears. I really just want to be pain free but life is pain. Love is pain. Faith is pain. Hope is pain. At first I just wanted to be numb. Now I want to be free. I want to go from present tense to past tense...from healing to made whole.