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Unhealed Wounds Nightlight with RTTBROS
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- May 23, 2026
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- 173
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Unhealed Wounds Nightlight with RTTBROS "Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled." Hebrews 12:15 (KJV) I heard a line recently that stopped me cold. I've been turning it over ever since. Here it is: if you don't heal what hurt you, you will bleed on people who didn't cut you. Now, I've been around long enough to know that's not just a clever saying. That's a diagnosis. I've seen it play out over and over again in my years as a pastor and now as a chaplain sitting beside people in the hardest moments of their lives. A man who was shamed as a boy grows up and shames his own children. A woman who was abandoned learns to push people away before they can leave. A person who was controlled becomes the controller. We carry our wounds forward, and if we never deal with them, we discharge them onto the very people we love most. There was a physician in nineteenth-century Vienna named Ignaz Semmelweis. He discovered that doctors were unknowingly killing their patients by going from the autopsy table directly to delivering babies, without washing their hands. They were transferring what they had touched in death into the most vulnerable, life-giving moments imaginable. The medical establishment resisted him fiercely. It took years before the world accepted what he was saying. But the principle was undeniable: you carry what you touch, and you pass it on. That's exactly what unhealed pain does in a human soul. The writer of Hebrews calls it a root of bitterness. Roots are underground, hidden, and quiet, but they don't stay that way. They grow. They spread. And eventually, they spring up and defile many. Not just you, but the people around you who never did a thing to deser…