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“I felt these words resonate through out my being ‘Though sadness has captured my heart, it will not overwhelm my soul.’ And I knew that I was but a child in the middle of the night, scared and alone, but the dawn would soon arrive.”— T.B. LaBerge // Be Still
“One day, we will shout into the night, that fear has no hold. One day, love will bloom without hesitation and our hearts will dance freely. One day, your courage will be known above the noise of pain.”— T.B. LaBerge // Go Now
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“There are many sorts of broken hearts and Christ is good at healing them all.”— Charles Spurgeon
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“Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.”— James Hillman
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Your soul will sing again.
Some days are really hard. Some nights, you feel literal pain in your heart and sob into your pillow with an empty ache in your chest. You hurt in ways only you and God understand. In difficult times, you don’t have to pretend like things don’t suck. You don’t have to try to pull your crap together so other people won’t see you struggle and misjudge you because it is clear you’re not doing your best. Be honest. Be raw. Feel the depths of that.
Feel it, because it is real. But know the way you are feeling now is not ultimate truth. That is what you have to refocus on when you fall apart and life sucks. Truth re-anchors you. You can choose to not let those emotions dictate your actions. Feel it, own it, and then take that and do something with it that doesn’t pull you down permanently. Don’t let the weight of your struggle drown you. You gotta let it go to God and hold on to Him. And trust even more that He has you in His care.
David in his most downcast state asked his soul “why are you so downcast within me?” It wasn’t that he didn’t know. Oh, he knew all the reasons. He was more saying, hey, why don’t you stop being so downcast. You know joy is better.
But he was honest before God and he was honest with himself. And I think that is the first step to recognizing okay, this is where I am. I am at the bottom right now. This is a low. But God is with me. And God has not changed.
And in that place, David decided to put his hope in God. He knew where his hope was. He declared to himself that he would praise his Savior; his soul would sing again. That is faith even when you feel the opposite.
No matter how downcast, how discouraged your soul gets, put your hope in God. Your soul will sing again.
“Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.” - David, Psalm 42:11
This made me cry
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in the mood to run into a field of flowers and dance out my feelings and lie in the grass
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