I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh – Ezekiel 36:26īut he said to me,“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. It’s hard to move forward unless you’ve made peace with your past – Unknown So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. No one knows how dark it is until you turn on the light … you get used to the darkness, but don’t realize there is an entire world you are not seeing because you haven’t found the light – Unknownįor our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again. – Helen KellerĪnxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up – Proverbs 12:25Ĭomfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy – Psalm 94:19Īlthough the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn’t allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. Why would I want them to? ― Jeanette Winterson This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. “You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. After a while, it’s still there, but you learn to walk round it.― Rachel Joyce To begin with, you forget it’s there and keep falling in. It’s like discovering a great hole in the ground. The only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. – Isiah 41:13 NIVĪnyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. –John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meanyįor I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear I will help you. Just when the day comes - when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever - there comes another day, and another specifically missing part. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once you lose her in pieces over a long time - the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand that he may lift you up in due time. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape. Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. I call to you, Lord, every day I spread out my hands to you. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance perseverance, character and character, hope. …a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance. Weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. – Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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