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Darkness and Pain
What You’re Going Through Is a Phase
Life moves in darkness and light, seasons and phases
Darkness and Phases
I know what it’s like to have a heavy heart. To feel so tired of carrying your broken heart that you want to set it down and breathe. I know what’s like to want to pull the covers over your head and let the tears flow. I know what it’s like to feel so sad. To feel as if you’ll never feel good again. I know what it’s like to be afraid. To be afraid of what could go wrong at any moment, knowing it only takes a second for it all to go wrong.
I also know that the things you’re going through aren’t without purpose. When life feels like it’s removed you from the people and punishing you, I like to think of a parent's love for his kids. A parent must punish the child to save the child. Like God, Abba Father, discipline his children.
In the moment when you’re being disciplined you wonder, “How could you, father? How could You let this happen? You’re supposed to love me so why are You allowing me to hurt so bad?” You wonder why there’s no help and why you’re going through it all alone. You wonder if it’ll ever change and you'll feel better. In the moment, you’ll feel it’s unlikely. You’ve felt that way for too long, you’re afraid it’s what it…
