WHAT IF?

What if someone else's decision breaks your heart? I'm not talking disappointment here. I'm talking about an interruption in your ability to live your life in a healthy way. Broken heart! You were caught off-guard by a betrayal, a shocking behavior, or loss of a loved one. Suddenly you are feeling like you’ve lost all hope . . . you can feel a physical aching in your chest that leaves you wounded and scarred. There are times when the situation is so bad that you can't seem to will yourself or pray yourself to move forward. At every turn things just seem to get worse. You notice at the lowest of times the people that you care about the most can be your worst enemies. Their motives, while well-intentioned, may cause you to get depressed, worried, scared, unhappy, mean or despondent. God has told us that he is God. Why is it easy for us to only believe this while things are going well?? Why when our hearts are breaking do we feel God doesn't care or He doesn't love us? Most believe that everything that happens will happen for a reason. Yet in the midst of pain we get stuck on an illogical reason that God must really hate me to make me suffer like this. You have just locked yourself in the prison of pain. God already gave you the key to freedom. He put it in the palm of your hand the day He died for your sins. You were forgiven and given the power to forgive. I use to say a little prayer when self imprisoned: "Lord please forgive them while I learn to". That didn't get me out of the prison of pain where ugly thoughts and lies bombard me all day long. I had to use MY key, the one God gave me and forgive my heartbreaker. Only then can you soar on the wings of your broken heart. Your pain will go away, but the lessons learned will inspire others.

A pearl to string: "You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord". Ephesians 5:8 Before and after -- that's the story of grace. "I once was lost but now I'm found, was blind but now I see." If we could only fully grasp what we so easily sing then life would be filled with more grace and our hearts with more confidence in God.

Proverbs 14:1: "The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down". Living in un-forgiveness is like the woman who tears her house down. If you live in un-forgiveness you will tear down those you love. It doesn’t matter where you live. Spiritually speaking, every woman has some type of “house.” It might be your immediate family, your neighborhood, your workplace, your school, your church. In all these places, we can bless and build the lives of people around us. John Angell James expressed this well. He wrote, “A community is not likely to be overthrown where a woman fulfills her mission. For by the power of her noble heart over the hearts of others, she will raise it from its ruins.”

You have the power in Him and
You are loved
Lyndi