Necessary Sadness
| December 30th, 2007If there is one thing I’ve seen here at the Promise House, it’s pain. Not so much my own, but the girls’. Week after week these kids get jilted by their families and/or their baby’s father. Imagine the kind of pain you might feel you might feel if the only person you have to hold on to no longer cares about you. Maybe you don’t have to imagine it.
Every little thing is gonna be alright. That’s part of a song by Delirious?. I believe it’s true. It might take a while, but everything is going to be ok. And, more than that, pain and sadness are often necessary for growth to occur, for peace and joy to take root (Jn. 16:7). Jesus walks with us and strengthens us through times of brokenness so that we not only survive them, but come out on the other side with a deeper connectedness to him and a clear perspective of what life is all about.
I can’t imagine. I complain about the situations and issues I’m going through but I cannot fathom the pain the girls go through. Thank God they have you, but I know it must be tough to see the pain in their eyes day after day. You are doing a great work.
Thanks for the encouragement. God is doing some really cool things in the lives of these girls. It is, however, very slow-going at times.
1 Peter 5:7 has always helped me when I see other people hurting so much and really it is only a matter of time for it to get better…even though often it seems that the pain they are in might never go away or heal. Thank goodness our God is the Great Physician and healer of all things. =)