Take a Love Break

Find a quiet spot, maybe it's just closing your eyes right where you are to shut the world off.  Take a very deep cleansing breath inhale through your nose and slowly exhale through pursed lips.  Willfully release the burdens of your day. As if you could actually hold them all in your hands... open your palms up wide.  Let go of all the unmet expectations that caused the frustrations and disappointments that were like lightening strikes to your soul... let them go.  Take another deep cleansing breath.  Now the judgments that grow into resentment that ignite like a match to a dry forest and burn out of control... give those over... all of them.  Cease striving, "Be still, and know that I am God...". (Ps 46:10)  Just listen to your heart beat and breathe for 3 minutes. Feel your heart beat... isn't it miraculous?  God did that.  He created that heart and put it into every breathing being. 

When releasing our burdens to the Lord we become an empty vessel ready to receive.  Guard your freshly emptied heart.  To complete a love break one needs to fill the emptiness with love.  It just so happens that... God is love.

 
Jesus said, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture said, streams of living water will flow from within him." (John 7:37-38)
 

A pearl to string:  Streams of water -- living water for dying hopes, cool water for parched hearts, refreshing water for those tired and weary. This is, of course, much more than a liquid we can drink with our lips. This is the ultimate water of the soul that God longs to give to us, his children.

 

Let us refresh ourselves with the promises of Jesus.

In drawing close to him, the Spirit will restore our soul.
Now that.... is love,
                         Lyndi

 A few promises to contemplate:

~That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame...for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." (Romans 10:9-13)
~You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. (John 15:3,4)
~says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. (Isaiah 1:18)
~being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 1:6)
~Jesus says, "My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. I and the Father are one." (John 10:27-30)