What to do when Broken-hearted!!!

What do you do when heartache comes?!

What do you do when your broken hearted? What do you do when you can't stop the tears from flowing? When you lay awake at night, knowing there is NOTHING you can physically do to fix or change what happened?What do you do when your so broken hearted you don't think you'll ever be whole again?  What do you do when your heart feels split in million shattered pieces? 
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What do you do when life punches you in the stomach, gives you a black eye, tackles you to the ground and pounds you with a beating that knocks the wind out of you???

 

With the loss of my mom in February, I can say that for the second time in my life I have truly felt what it is like to be broken-hearted. Although there is much joy and celebration knowing where she has gone, it is STILL the loss of someone I love. No matter what, I STILL MISS HER, my heart is still broken at her departure. And don't get me wrong, I don't feel like my life is over, i'm not depressed or anything like that, its just a sadness that is there in your loss.
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Broken-hearted, we've all been there and IF you haven't, trust me, ONE day you will!!! It is in these hard times that we really don't know what to do, but we do have an example to always follow...

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WHAT DID JESUS DO?!

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The Bible says in Mathew that the king beheaded his cousin John the Baptist as a present to the daughter of Herodias. "And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought [it] to her mother." How do you think that made JESUS feel?!?! Knowing that HIS close cousin, whom he loved, was beheaded as a BIRTHDAY present to some spoiled little BRAT!!! This is what the Bible says happened...

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1. He went to be alone...

"When Jesus heard of it, (Heard of his cousins death) he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart:"

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2. BUT people came to him...

 

and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities. And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude,

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3.He loved, He helped, He healed...

 and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.
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4. What the disciples thought...

 And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
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5. What Jesus thought...

 But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give  ye them to eat. And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. He said, Bring them hither to me. And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven,

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6. HE FED THEM...

 he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
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7. HE PRAYED!!!

 And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray..." (Matthew 14:13-23)

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I was soooo struck by this passage when I read it...I was just like WOW!!!

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WHAT DID JESUS DO?!?!?!

His FIRST response was to get away and mourn...and of course there is a time and need as humans for us to mourn, EVEN JESUS DID!!! BUT when Jesus realized that their was people that NEEDED him... he PUT ASIDE HIS OWN HURT and he had COMPASSION on them!!!

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 What did JESUS do?!!?! He ministered to them! He healed the sick!!! The disciples thought the Jesus should be LEFT ALONE...BUT JESUS...He fed the hungry! AND HE PRAYED!!! AND then if you keep reading you know what Jesus does NEXT?!?! He walks on water!!! Oh what a MIGHTY AWESOME God we serve!!! What a wonderful, beautiful example He is to us!!

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 WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN  heartache comes?!?!

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YOU PRAY and you get up, you feed the hungry, you love people and you KEEP ON WALKING!!! You may momentarily have the wind knocked out of you, but don't stay there, You go on  with the things God has called you to do!!! You may think that it is best to just stay away and bandage your wounds... BUT... you will find that there IS HEALING in fulfilling what God has called you to in this life!!!
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EVEN at the absolute, very lowest point in your life, when you feel worse than dirt beneath your nails and lower than belly button fuzz, IF you have obeyed Acts 2:38, been forgiven of your sins, had them washed away in JESUS name and received the wonderful gift of the HOLY GHOST, despite ANYTHING you have lost, YOU STILL HAVE MORE THAN THE RICHEST PERSON ON THIS EARTH!!!

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No matter what happens in this life, YOU'VE STILL GOT JESUS!!! You STILL have a hope that this world does NOT HAVE!!! Despite your circumstances, You need to realize that there are PEOPLE that NEED  what YOU have!!! There are SOULS that NEED YOU!!! Somone needs YOU to minister to them!!! Someone needs YOUR LOVE!!! Someone NEEDS YOUR PRAYERS!!! Someone NEEDS YOUR HELP!!! Feed the hungry!!! There are hungry souls everywhere that are waiting to be fed!!! Feed the hungry!!! Feed the hungry!!! FEED THE HUNGRY!!! FEED THE HUNGRY!!!

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FEED THE HUNGRY!!!

You do this and before you know it...your gonna be walking on water!!! Maybe not physically, BUT spiritually!!! You focus on God and he is gonna bless you. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. (Psalms 147:3) God WILL take care of you in your hurting times..."...to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness..." (ISAIAH 61: 3)

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There is NOTHING the devil would like more than for you to lose focus and get all hung up on your problem, on your wounds, on you heartache...BUT you know what you gotta do?!?! You just keep walking!!! In the midst of your heartache...

Remember what Jesus did...

He prayed...

 He fed the hungry...

HE LOVED PEOPLE!!!

 

"And Jesus... and was moved with compassion toward them..."

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♥Mary Frances :)

What's different???

Do you remember as a child, you would see in a magazine two pictures that were ALMOST identical, but they really weren't. Within the pictures, there were some SLIGHT alterations and it was your job to sit there and look and look and LOOK, until  you found the differences.

And although this was an incredibley fun thing to do as a child, as a Christian, we shouldn't have to play this game. When people look at us, they shouldn't have to say, "What's different?" They shouldn't have compare us to this world like...hmmm...they seem exactley the same as everyone else...."What is it?" They shouldn't have to WONDER about us really living for God, they should ALREADY be able to tell. The way we act should be different, the way we talk should be DIFFERENT! Who we fellowship with should be different! The way we dress should be DIFFERENT! The way we treat people should be diffenrt!!! Everything in our life should be DIFFERENT! Sometimes we try SOOOOO hard to fit in with the world, but we shouldn't. Its sad seein a good, christian and not even knowing they are a Christian, because they are TRYING sooooooo hard NOT to be DIFFERNT.

Living for God is NOT like some kind of "WHERES WALDO" game...

God doesn't want us to be like Waldo and just 'blend in'!!!  God wants us to stand out in the middle of a crowd of ungodly people. We don't need to try and make it hard for the world to see that we are a Christian. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 6:17, "Wherefore, come out from among them, and be ye seperate, saith the Lord..."

"If you want to make a difference,

 you've GOT TO BE DIFFERENT!!!"

♥Mary Frances :)

Attitude CHECK!!!

A couple of weeks ago I was at Wal-mart and I was feelin sooo happy and I was JUST in SUCH A GOOD MOOD!!! Really, for no particular reason...I just felt the joy of the Lord in my heart. And there I am shopping, just walkin throught the store like a RAY OF SUNSHINE on dark dreary day for the rest of the world...

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 and I get in line and I'm quietly singing a little song under my breath and the cashier was like, WEEEELLL look at you...singing away....YOUR JUST SOOOO HAPPY!!! And she said like kinda questionin...like I MUST have some good news...like did I just proposed to? Win the lottery? What COULD POSSIBLEY be making me sooooo HAPPPY!?!?!?

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And without missing a beat I just said, Weeelll you know what, GOD IS JUST SOOOO GOOD!!! AND she just looks at me kinda surprised at my response...buuuuuuut I just smile, cuz that honestly and truley is the reason WHY I was feelin soooo happpppy!!! (Trust me, ain't NOBODY been proposin to me!!!;) AND I felt EVEN happier, cuz I felt like by having the joy of the Lord in my heart I was able to be a witness to this cashier at Wal-mart!!!!!!!!!!

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Weeeeeeellll a couple of days later, I found myself at the mall, in NOT quite sooooo good of a mood. Yeah, God is still GOOOOD buuuuuuuut, I was just feelin SLIGHTLY ANNOYED with my brother!!! He had asked me to pick something out for him to give his girlfriend for her birthday cuz he had gotten her this GPS thing for her car but he wanted to give her something girly-girl too, buuuuuut he wasn't about to step foot into the ICING...which my ABSOLUTE favorite store in the whole world for hair accessories....sooooooo he had given me money and told me to pick out something that Liz would like, that wasn't outlandish or wild! He said, "something REALLLY feminine!" I had been thinkin like, okaaaaaaaaay...whats that sayin about ME??? AnywayZ, I took it as, pick out something boring, that I, as in myself would NEVER wear!!! LOLOL

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AnywayZ, turns out that, BIG SURPRISE, my brother didn't like what I had picked out. I'm like, okaaaaaaay I din't get anything bright, its really soft pastel like colors...lacey...whats WRONG with it???  LIZ WOULD NEVER WEAR THAT...its too BIG!!! That thing is HUGE my brother said!!! I'm like okaaaaaaay whatever...I have things that are at least twice the size of that!!!

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Sooooo NOW here I am, at THE ICING, returning it. SO I tell the girl, who happens to see me QUITE often cuz, weeeelll you know, this is my favorite store, so I tell her that I gotta return it. She says, Oh i'm sorry, thats one of our dressy accessories, it can't be returned! I'm like, OH no its ok! I have my RECIEPT!!! I pull it out and show it to her. She says oh I know, buuuut the store has a policy on certain things that we sell, they can't be returned because they are dressy!

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I'm  thinkin like WHAAAAAAAAAT?! Cuz NOW what am I supposed to with this flower, that I would NEVER wear and cost over $10....I'm like...Ummmm...okaaaaay weeeellll...I didn't know  about this policy, NO ONE TOLD ME!!! And she is like, weeeeellll...the policy is printed on the back of ALL our receipts and I'm thinkin, like OKAAAAAAAAY...WHO READS THE BACK OF THEIR RECEIPTS???