You may be desperately clinging to the broken and mismatched remnants of your life, wondering how you can go on. Whispers of the enemy creep into your heart, soul and mind, taunting you with the lie t... View MoreYou may be desperately clinging to the broken and mismatched remnants of your life, wondering how you can go on. Whispers of the enemy creep into your heart, soul and mind, taunting you with the lie that you are just too dirty and broken for God to love or use. It seems as if nothing and no one can change that reality, so you might as well give up, throwing your life away.
Stop!
Nothing could be further from the truth! Hurt may be inevitable, but misery is optional. How we respond to pits and pain is our choice. We can surrender to the darkness and create an identity that feels at home in a pit, or we can embrace the pain and learn from it. We can settle for a life defined by pain, or we can harness the power of our pain and use it for good. We can try to ignore the pain and hope it all goes away, or we can face it and let God heal the broken places.
-Mary Southerland