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Extraction
Spiritual food with Jess – Mon October 12, 2026
Sometimes a tooth must be extracted just to save the rest of the smile. We live with a deep ache because we fear the empty space a tooth’s removal will leave behind, forgetting that keeping what is infected only allows the pain to spread.
I think sometimes that’s how our joy slowly fades. I’ve heard it said that one of the saddest things is what dies inside of us while we’re still living, and I would have to agree.
Smiles that become harder to find, the excitement that once made us look forward to tomorrow, the freedom we once felt. The pieces of who we are that we quietly lose along the way.
Sometimes what is slowly hurting us can become so deeply intertwined with our lives that we no longer recognise it as the thing causing the damage.
Like an infection that spreads quietly beneath the surface, it begins spreading into areas we never even realised it was reaching, affecting parts of us we never knew were being touched.
Maybe the saddest part is feeling unseen, having so much inside of us, yet feeling like no one truly notices.
Perhaps we don’t lose ourselves all at once, but rather, we lose tiny pieces of ourselves while the world keeps seeing us as though nothing has changed.
But there is hope when we turn to the One who holds us & the One who sees it all, even the parts no one else can see.
“The Lord is near to the broken-hearted & saves the crushed in spirit.” — Psalm 34:18.
He sees the wounds we hide & the battles we never speak about. He sees the tears behind the put on smile & the heaviness behind the silence.
He is the One who placed His Spirit within us & the One who gives us a heart of flesh. Perhaps it’s time to let the walls we have built slowly come down.
“I will give you a new heart & put a new spirit within you; I will remove from you your heart of stone & give you a heart of flesh.” — Ezekiel 36:26.
Maybe loving the way He loved means letting the light reach the places we kept hidden. Letting what has been deeply buried rise, what has been broken mend, and what has grown quiet speak again.
Perhaps some things within us were never truly dead, only waiting for the breath of God to bring them back from the dead.
“We love because he first loved us.” — 1 John 4:19.
It begins by turning back to the One who never stopped seeing us, the One who never left, the One who still calls us His own & who can breathe life into the places we thought were lifeless.
But sometimes, for those parts of us to come to life again, God has to remove the parts that have been slowly killing us.
What if the thing you thought was being taken from you was actually the thing God was removing to protect you?
Sometimes we misunderstand what God is doing because we only see the removal. We see the relationship ending, the doors closing, something we were holding onto suddenly no longer being part of our lives, & our first response is to grieve it or maybe question why He allowed it.
But God sees beneath the surface in a way that many of us don’t.
There are things we can live with for a long time without realising the impact they are having. Something can slowly erode our peace or change the way we think, & we may not recognise how much it has taken from us because we have become so accustomed to it.
Sometimes we have lived with something for so long that we don’t even remember what we were like before it. And sometimes God has to remove it before we can see things clearly.
That is where surrender becomes painful but beautiful. We have to trust Him enough to let go, even when we don’t have the full explanation.
There may be something in your life you are only now beginning to understand differently.
At the time, you thought you were losing something. Now you can see how much anxiety it brought, how much energy it took, how often you had to ignore what you knew deep down just to keep things going.
Sometimes we only recognise something is infected once we are no longer consumed by it.
God isn’t interested in simply making us feel better for a moment if the same thing is going to keep affecting us underneath. He knows where the problem begins & what needs to be removed.
That can be painful because removing the root means we can’t keep holding onto the part that was familiar. Even when something was unhealthy, it can still feel like a loss when it is gone.
But there comes a point where we have to stop asking God to give back what He intentionally extracted.
It’s alright to have the memories and still see the scars. That doesn’t mean those things still have a place in our lives. Sometimes the evidence remains, but the thing itself is gone.
Extraction becomes necessary when the infection pollutes the bloodstream.
And one day, you may look back at what you once prayed would stay & thank God that He had the wisdom to let it go.
There is a living hope. God can breathe life back into the places within us that have felt dead for quite some time.
What felt like loss may have actually been God giving you back the parts of yourself you had slowly lost.