What in your life has you hurting? What pain do you try to forget when your head hits the pillow, but as soon as your alarm goes off you start to feel the ache that you so badly wanted to forget? Maybe it’s cancer, or it’s a hole of severe depression you can’t quite crawl out of. Maybe it’s an unexpected death of a loved one, a constant nagging thought to end your life, or the extreme self loathe you feel every time you look in the mirror. It could be the feeling of inadequacy, or maybe someone broke your heart and left you to put the shattered pieces back together. Whatever it is, you are not alone. You never have been, and you never will be.
If you are feeling any sort of pain right now whether it be physical or emotional…I’ve been there. There has been times I have slept hours way beyond normal people should. It wasn’t because I was exhausted (although that does happen too), but it was due to the fact that while I was sleeping I wasn’t constantly reminded every time I took a breath of the overwhelming ache I was feeling. At one point the sadness was so deep that I couldn’t pry my body off the hard floor. I didn’t even have energy enough to stand, because at that very second my life didn’t even seem worth it. The pain was so deep that I couldn’t move, and didn’t want to breathe. I couldn’t imagine how in the world the life altering break would ever be repairable. I couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel everyone always talks about. The more I dwelled on the hurt of my situation, the more sadness would overtake my life. Any happiness that did occur wouldn’t even matter to me because all I cared about was what was hurting me. Until one day, I realized I would never get out of this darkness until I started looking to the son.
My question to you is are you focusing on the overwhelming hurt, or the overwhelming power of the healer? Lets get this straight, I do not know why sickness comes. I don’t know why sadness becomes as thick as fog, or why amazing people die. I don’t understand why society feels the need to make you feel anything but pretty. I don’t know why the person you thought would never leave, left and decided to never look back. However, I do know that God is turning the hurt, the sadness, the darkness, and the confusion into something good. If you are a Christian, try thanking God for the hurt. I understand that’s an immensely hard concept to ever wrap your mind around. Why would we want to thank God for the horrible time in our life right? Thank him because it is going to be far from horrible someday, but instead unfathomably beautiful. Why would we ever need to experience the healer and restorer if there was never anything sick, broken, or shattered in our lives? All our messes become messages someday.
To this day, I praise the Lord for the sadness. I thank him for the time I was so incredibly lonely because in those moments I realized my joy was in him, not in my circumstance. He never left me. When I cried, he held every tear. He was heartbroken because I was heartbroken. It is time to take your eyes off of your feelings, and dwell on the bigger picture that is unfolding. The hurt may be present and big, but guess what? The healer is bigger, omnipresent, and is wrapping you in his loving arms. He takes away the shadows of heartbreak, and the cloud of hurt hovering over you. My challenge for you is to quit focusing on your circumstance, the people that hurt you, or the things that hurt you. Instead, look to the one who heals you. He is making you more into his perfect masterpiece crafted by the shattered pieces of who we are.
Whitney Newman♡ 
Thank you and God bless you.