The Fix for Broken Hearts
My husband's recent angina or aching heart led us on quite a journey that ended with him having open heart surgery. It's interesting how doctors can "fix" the physical problems of the heart, but there are heartaches that just don't go away without God fixing them. Those heartaches usually involve relationships with family or friends.
It's been said that spouses die of "broken hearts" after the death of their husband or wife and yet doctors can't find anything physically wrong with them. What causes our hearts to ache? Separation? Devastation? Rejection? Manipulation? Or is it something else? Do we put on others our own feelings, expectations, emotions, responsibilities, or ideals that belong solely to ourselves but we wish another will fulfill them? When they do not live up to our wants and desires in a relationship we feel hurt and our hearts ache. We feel as though this person or group of people should have responded differently, but they didn't. Why didn't they do as I had in my mind for them to do?
Could it be that we have made them a type of idol in our lives? We look up to them, have a need for them or a desire from them that we should only be desiring from God alone? Will He not heal our broken hearts if only we take them to Him? Are we too earthly bound to reach to the heavens for help?
Cracks to our hearts can start at a young age, then as hurts come through the years our hearts harden in response to the hurts as an attempt to protect ourselves from further heartache. Unfortunately a hard heart doesn't keep the pain away, in fact, it often exacerbates the problem, magnifying the issues and turning the hurt inward in search of issues within that continue to attract such heart wrenching disappointment.
If you have a hurting heart today, for any reason whether physical or emotional, call on God, the healer and creator of your heart. Only He knows how your individual heart actually works and what it will take to "fix" it.
It's been said that spouses die of "broken hearts" after the death of their husband or wife and yet doctors can't find anything physically wrong with them. What causes our hearts to ache? Separation? Devastation? Rejection? Manipulation? Or is it something else? Do we put on others our own feelings, expectations, emotions, responsibilities, or ideals that belong solely to ourselves but we wish another will fulfill them? When they do not live up to our wants and desires in a relationship we feel hurt and our hearts ache. We feel as though this person or group of people should have responded differently, but they didn't. Why didn't they do as I had in my mind for them to do?
Could it be that we have made them a type of idol in our lives? We look up to them, have a need for them or a desire from them that we should only be desiring from God alone? Will He not heal our broken hearts if only we take them to Him? Are we too earthly bound to reach to the heavens for help?
Cracks to our hearts can start at a young age, then as hurts come through the years our hearts harden in response to the hurts as an attempt to protect ourselves from further heartache. Unfortunately a hard heart doesn't keep the pain away, in fact, it often exacerbates the problem, magnifying the issues and turning the hurt inward in search of issues within that continue to attract such heart wrenching disappointment.
If you have a hurting heart today, for any reason whether physical or emotional, call on God, the healer and creator of your heart. Only He knows how your individual heart actually works and what it will take to "fix" it.
Psalms 147: 3 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
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