Thursday, 05 May 2011

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  Sometimes life can hurt so bad it takes your breath away. You look around you and see brokenness. Broken people. Broken relationships. Broken lives. Broken hearts.
  
  Some days your own brokenness is startlingly glaring. And how can you help others find healing from their brokenness when you are so broken yourself?
  
  And then there's a whisper.
  {{Jesus.}}
  It is Jesus who brings healing. I can only point others TO Him.
  
  But will He heal MY brokenness. What about the jagged and raw edges of my own heart? The places I try to hide. The places I don't trust anyone to look at. The places no one really takes the time to see. What about those places?
  But Jesus is longing to touch my broken places. He cries when I cry. He feels my pain. My hopelessness and despair. My anger. My loss. My feelings of rejection. He understands my longing for approval.
  
  And He asks me to give up that longing.
  
  My life is only to be lived for His approval. And His approval I don't need to earn. I am accepted. I am loved. And He wants to -longs to - love me into wholeness.
  
  And He is waiting to do the same for you. When you are in your darkest places. Your deepest pain. Remember He is beside you. Crying. Reaching out His arms. Just let Him hold you. Let Him speak to the broken places in your soul. And allow Him to touch those places with His healing hand. He died for those hurts. Those wounds. He loves you. No matter what. He just.loves.you.
  
  And our brokenness. Our raw, bleeding edges. The wounds that bleed pain. And never quite heal.
  
  Maybe.
  
  Just maybe.
  
  Those are the places we can absorb His love the best. {Just maybe} those are the places that ... once healed, will shine His radiance and love to others the brightest. Out of those places we can show His compassion. His mercy & grace. His beauty.
  
  

  
  
  JoLynn
  

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