A HURTING
HEART
What does a
hurting heart look like? I have learned
that it might look nothing at all like you think. It can wear a smile, it can be laughing,
playing, singing a song, jumping rope, doing just about anything that would not
give the slightest clue that it is aching.
It will however show itself from time to time. It can be captured in a moment of silence and
seen very clearly in the eyes that look like they are seeing something in the
far distance. They are not looking to
the space in front of them but the empty space inside. Perhaps seeing another child with their
adoptive parents takes them back to a time when their mother or father was
holding them and kissing their face. A
broken heart misses the touches of a mommy and daddy, the security felt in
laying their small frame next to their mother’s bosoms or their father’s big
strong arms. It longs to hear I love
you, you are so beautiful, you are special and all of the other emotions expressed the way only a mommy and daddy can do. The
most beautiful thing about a broken heart is that it can be mended. It does not have to stay broken. Our Heavenly Father knew that we would be
broken and healing would need to take place when he created us. He knew that painful moments in time could be
replaced with new moments. Tender, caring and loving moments that can bring
healing into the heart of each child that is longing for a mommy and daddy. In Romans Chapter 8 God’s Word very clearly
tells us that we have all been grafted into His family. That we are in fact joint heirs with Jesus
Christ His son. We do not have a spirit
of fear but a spirit of adoption. I pray
that the Spirit of God would move in the hearts of His children to know this
spirit of adoption by which we were so graciously accepted into and hurting
hearts all over the world would come to know the feeling of being grafted into
love by His children.
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