hurting

Every time I go look for God amidst sorrow, I always find Jesus at the cross, in death and resurrection. This is our God.

If my decisions constantly heed the voice of the world, I can be completely assured that I__ going to end up in a __orld of hurt._ If my decisions heed the word of God, I can be completely assured that this __orld of hurt_ isn__ anywhere near my solar system.

God's presence is not the same as the feeling of God's presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least.

We can only trust God to change hearts and lives, and let Him use us to stand up for Him, and to love the hurting.

To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.

Finding out that you are not your lover__ only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick _ or the side dick.

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else__ opinion that we do not look happy.

I do not hurt people, they just make me do it.

You're like a band-aid that is slowly ripping off, and I'm still wounded!

Don't be a reflection of your depression, your dark, or your ugly. Reflect what you want. Your light, your beauty, & your strength. Aspire for greatness - reflect who you are; not which deficits you maintain. Showcase the hidden treasures.

Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.

Attachment to the hurt is the root of all suffering.

Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.

Caring was a thing with claws. It sank them in, and didn__ let go. Caring hurt more than a knife to the leg, more than a few broken ribs, more than anything that bled or broke and healed again. Caring didn__ break you clean. It was a bone that didn__ set, a cut that wouldn__ close.

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.

that is the thing about selfish people. theygamble entire beings. entire souls to please their own. one second they are holding you like the world in their lap and the next they have belittled you to a mere picture. a moment. something of the past. one second. they swallow you up and whisper they want to spend the rest of their life with you. but the moment they sense fear. they are already halfway out the door. without having the nerve to let you go with grace. as if the human heart means that little to them.and after all this. after all of the taking. the nerve. isn't it sad and funny how people have more guts these days to undress you with their fingers than they do pick up the phone and call. apologize. for the loss. and this is how you lose her.- selfish

Contrast is important in life. We understand what light is because we can compare it with what we know is dark. Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter. It__ the very same with sadness. And it__ important to experience sadness, to embrace it in order to truly know happiness. I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I__ hurting. But isn__ that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully?

We have to expect disappointments, trouble, losses and hurts as an inevitable part of life. It is vital to repeat to ourselves the most important and comforting words of all time: THIS, TOO, SHALL PASS AWAY!