Journey Day 378

I'm just sayin... heartbreak sucks. It comes in all kinds of different flavors, but whatever way you slice it, it's just a terrible painful experience. It can be caused by a bad breakup... the one who you thought was THE one changed their mind and now you're left picking up the pieces. It can be caused by the end of a friendship... you both grew, but sadly you grew in different directions. It can be caused by an event, like the passing of a close family member or friend, or even making a mistake that reminds you that maybe you haven't come as far as you thought. Whatever the cause, the pain is real... and it sucks. Sometimes the pain lasts longer than the relationship did, or at least the effects of the pain do. I've been there... more times than I'd like to think about. The odds are that if you're breathing you've experienced heart break too, it seems to be an unfortunate part of the human experience. I wish I had a formula for getting through this ache, but I don't. Instead, each time my heart breaks I cry, I talk it out with my friends, and I remember these verses... "I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I will remember them and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself 'The Lord is my portion, therefore I will wait for Him.' " (Lamentations 3:19-24) I think that these verses were created for the depressed and heartbroken person. It's so easy to throw a pity party, and to let our heartbreak consume us, but instead we have to hope in the Lord, and remember His love for us is GREAT and He will not allow us to be consumed by our emotions and our pain. He is the light at the end of the tunnel, and He is just waiting for us to realize that He is the light of our life.