Heartbreak and Healing

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Hello friends!! Today I want to share something that’s been on my heart for a while. Heartbreak. I’m pretty sure that at one point or another all of us have felt heartbreak. Growing up, thinking of a broken heart I always pictured a boyfriend breaking up with me. My 7 year old self dreaded heartbreak. But as I got older I realized our hearts break in more ways than romantically. Sometimes a friend betrays our trust and our heart breaks. Sometimes we don’t get the job , and our heart breaks. Sometimes we get sick or someone in our family gets sick or we lose a loved one or a terrible world tragedy happens and our hearts break. And after the initial reaction of tears – at least for me, I find myself asking God why. Lord why would you put me or these people through pain? Why do good, loving people get hurt?

I experienced a heart break recently that tore my heart into tiny little pieces. I won’t get into details but for a while my heart just permanently hurt. I tried really hard to see a different plan God might have for me but I just felt numb. Jesus why is my heart still hurting? I just couldn’t get over this hurt and couldn’t understand why. But here’s the thing y’all. Our hearts and our minds don’t have the power to comprehend the lord and his plans. We could never understand the plans he has for us , no matter how hard we try. Y’all as heartbreaking as it is, there is much evil in this world. There are cruel people and broken hearts and scared souls. But here’s the good news- god is still here and he is still good. And as much as you might have heard this- we have to trust him. We have to lay down the plans we think are right for us and put it all in the Lords hand. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t work towards our goals but instead decide to get back up when we get knocked down. I finally decided to say you know what- God I trust you. I can’t understand but I know you do and so I’m know I’ll be ok. Because y’all he is good all the time. Not just when we win the game, or the get the job, or get an A on our math test. He is good when our hearts hurt so bad we feel numb throughout our whole body. He is good when we lose someone we love. He is good when we go though a breakup. And he is good when we lose a friend.

So y’all, I don’t know what’s currently hurting you right now – and to be honest I could really not tell you why the hurtful thing is happening to you except for that life is simply not fair. But I can tell you that when you love the Lord and you trust him with every bone in your body- your going to be ok. I know that we need to be brave. I know that even when I feel like facing my heart break sounds like the worst idea ever- I need to do it anyway. Because we cannot lay down in our hurt. It will eventually consume us. We need to reach up and grab the hand the lord extends to us and trust. That’s all we can do fiends- trust. Trust in someone who knows more than you. I pray for everyone reading this and their hurt & I pray the Lord wraps his arms tight around them giving them comfort and lifting them away from the pain. Our earthy pain is temporary – but the way Jesus loves us, that’s forever. No hurt or pain or suffering will ever be able to take that away from us. He loves you broken, scarred, pieced together, faded, full, and everything in between.

So to all the people feeling a broken heart, I know you are hurting, I know you cannot understand and I wish more than anything I could help you. But all I can honestly say is trust friends- and never give up on that trust. Remember the love life brings – like sunsets, and mountain top views, and the birth of a baby. Remember the love and the hurt will fade. Remember what it feels like to roll the windows down and blast your favorite song, or how a reunion hug at an airport feels when the person you love is finally with you. Remember the love and trust. Because those things are more powerful than hurt could ever be. Jesus is love. And he loves you. And wow friends because that just puts my broken heart back together. I hope it does the same for you.

All the Love, Annie