Wednesday, September 3, 2008

random feelings

It seems only a year ago I was in the same place that I am now. Feelings of hopelessness and despair. My heart aching over a lost love that I feel can never be. What in me was wrong what needs to change in my heart. I hurt from the deepest parts of my heart. My heart truly aches over a lost love. My heart aches for the pain I caused in the relationship, not knowing how to love a person the way they needed to be loved and all the while doing everything I knew how to do. My hope in Christ has not wavered like last year but I wonder about why this happened. Why did I fall so hard into a relationship that would never be. Why did I make promises that would never be kept. I feel now I am left alone with lonliness, pain, anger, and heartache. I know Jesus can heal this but what needs to change in me. What is the lesson. Lord I beg of you do not let me loose this lesson. I still know I serve a God who is control. I choose to bless the Lord in this season. There was a ray of light that was then smothered out by a dark cloud. How do I pray, where do I go for counsel, am I less of a man. Will I ever the desire of family and wife. Each day I grow older. Each day I am farther away from raising children. Is this Gods answer to me. I know that God is here in the midst of my pain but what is he teaching me. What does he want to say. Lord let me be in a posture to hear your voice. At times I feel overwhelmed with work, school, the apprenticeship. Where do I share my pain. Why is there anger rising up in me who am I angry at, Lord please help me navigate through the pain.

3 comments:

smidgenswife said...

i hear you and so totally understand...

i do not say that tritely... you know that...

When God Doesn't Make Sense by James Dobson... fantastic...

jen

Mike said...

Rich,

I will be praying for you brother.

God's apparent silence can be one of the hardest thing to deal with.

May God comfort you in your sorrow, strengthen you in weakness and love you when you are angry.

By the way Rich a lot of us have gone through those times when God falls off the Radar Screen. It is tough, but He is faithful. We never fall off His Radar Screen.

God bless

Mike

smidgenswife said...

It's so beautiful and redemptive to go back and reach this now...

Doesn't God make beauty from ashes...

I rejoice with you, my brother in Christ.