No Scar?

Perhaps this describe you...you have been misunderstood or treated unfairly,probably an injury caused by some you are vulnerable to...someone you love...someone you trust and respect.Tucked away in a quiet corner of every life are wounds and scars.If there were not there we would need no Physician.Nor would we need one another.Here's a piece by Amy Carmichael who also helped heal a wound within me and turned it into a scar of beauty instead of disgrace

Hast thou no scar?
No hidden scar on foot, or side, or hand?
I hear thee sung as mighty in the land,
I hear them hail thy bright ascendant star
Has thou no scar?

Has thou no wound?
Yet I was wounded by the archers, spent,
Leaned me against a tree to die;and rent
By ravening beasts that compassed me, I swooned:
Hast thou no wound?

No wound, no scar?
Yet,as the Master shall the servant be,
And, pierced are the feet that follow me;
But thine are whole: can he have followed far
Who has no wound nor scar?

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