Hurt comes in many different forms, it comes in different ways and it has many different effects on people...
For me, I realize, I have a tendecy to build a wall for most let downs that crosses my path.
It isn't my choice, although I try not to, that I build a wall.
This is the effect of the hurt.
I don't really like to get to close to a person. Just knowing that a person may know my deepest hurts and our a friendship has a probability of being in turmoil kills me.
My heart can take no more.
I don't want anymore hurt but I know that this world is full of pains and my road is rocky.
So I try and I prepare myself to take on anything that this road offers.
Every fall I take, every push from the world, every trip to my face.
Even the betrayal of a friend (which cuts so deeply), I'm familiar with it and I'm ready.
I said that I don't want pain but what I want doesn't always happen. I do get close to a person but when I do that fear is there. Will I allow fear to control me?
All I can do, all anyone can do is FORGIVE those who had caused the past pains... For those who know a bit of me... this is my secretof being human.
I keep getting hurt but I learn from it and I don't hold a grudge.
I remember that God didn't promise a smooth sailing... but He promised a safe landing.
Dad, I forgive you. No body had brought hurt on me, internally, more than you have. I love you and I hope you make it though your trials in the situation you are in presently. The "friends" I had I forgive as well. I learned how to choose my friends.
I ask and I pray, with all the tresgressions I have committed against anyone, that I, too, am forgiven.
God is my source of hope and forgivness is what he taught me. Learn it and you will live.
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I love positive messsages like this! About taking everything in your life that hurts and putting it to good use- and forgiving those that caused the harm. Thank you again for posting this! :)
"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
-Van Gogh
There are so many people in the world today that suffer because they have not learned to Forgive another that has offended or hurt them in some way ,and yet they themselves hurt others that are around them .We aught to learn to forgive. Why should God forgive us if we are not willing to forgive another how then are we better then another. For dose not God say Ill forgive whom I wish to FORGIVE and for you it is required of you to forgive all. We do not know who will return to live with God and for this reason we are asked to forgive and in many ways it is a way to learn to love instead of hate those that have offended.