How easy is it, when we feel pain or fear, to build a wall around our hearts. A wall that is meant to protect us from feeling any more pain, but ends up keeping out the very thing that would heal us! That is the love of our family and friends, and the love of our Heavenly Father. With our walls securely built up around our hearts, we go on living life, smiling, joking, working hard, and yet missing the connections that we were meant to make with people. Those deep connections that make life good. The deep friendships that help us get through the hard things. We become an island, resigning ourselves to go through our deepest sadnesses and hardships alone, while just beyond that wall is a world rich with the love of God, family and dear friends just waiting to wrap itself around us and heal our wounds.
But we choose to "protect" ourselves no matter what the costs!
Another way we protect ourselves when we are in pain, is through anger. I love how the apostle Paul shares how we often hurt others when we are buried by our own pain. Have you ever been so consumed by pain that all you can see is anger? Again, we protect ourselves first, at all costs. Has your pain ever blinded you to the open arms, the gifts and treasures provided by loving friends or family, that might have lifted your burdens and provide you with sustenance?
What are your thoughts? :-)
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