WHAT DO YOU DO ON HEART-ACHY DAYS

​Sometimes a loss is so big that though the wound has healed it feels as though the ache will never go away.
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             So what do you do
             on heart-achy days?  

What do you do ... when the ache of the loss just comes flooding back up when you think it has all been swept away? When you’ve done what you can in all your strength and all the strength the creator has given to have moved on but your heart moves back. When you miss.. just MISS.. what can never be again. When you find yourself in this place of what was never meant to be and yet just IS. And you think you’ve gone so far beyond all the pain but something just jabs... jabs hard.. hits a soft spot on the scar.

What do you do? What then?
   
Do you sit in that pain a minute and feel it? Or go to the freezer and eat some mini pecan buttertarts.. the ones you were saving for your dad’s visit and you froze because you were on a diet? Let’s not kid around here. It wasn’t one. It was 6. 

It seems like that sweet buttertart will fill the empty feeling in the pit of your stomach.                                                
                                              And for a moment it does.
   
And then what? When you feel it a moment more what do you do next?

Do you breathe it out and cry it out and tell it out and plead it out?
   
Because the one who was most wounded still has the scars and knows both how it feels to die and how it felt to rise back up again in victory. The same power that conquered His grave and brought Him to life calls us out to be more than conquerors over whatever we face... even this pain that bubbled back up and sent us back to the death tomb.

So what does that power do right now.. in this deep dark place where our heart went back in and got tangled back up in bandages?

It calls us out. It calls us up. To rise again. To let that dead part go.. so HIS new life can rise again in us for all to witness.

​To place all that was dead and all that was lost and all that was broken in His hands for His working. Because as tears go down our cheek he takes His scarred hands and reaches out and puts them one by one in a bottle. And that is when you hear Him over the ache: Because behold He IS doing a new thing. And He WILL make all things new...

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