Even in my tiredness and exhaustion this morning, I was reading through my Youversion www.bible.com app devotion (about Depression and What to do with myself right now).
I was given these words.. This season of change and discouragement and pain and confusion...
We can take joy in it!
Why?
Because when we take joy in our sufferings, we allow God to move.
We allow Jesus to be our strength.
We ALL, as humans, know that all other humans are uncomfortable with pain. There may be a few who are okay with being with you in it, but in general, you can't find many people who will sit with you in it and stay put. They try to talk you out of it, not through it, and try to make you feel better, instead of feeling it and giving you that time to know what the pain is, where it comes from, and how to know your pain instead of burying it.
Jesus is comfortable sitting with you in that pain.
If you sit and close your eyes and just allow yourself to feel it, allow yourself to know what it is, where it's coming from, and let yourself express it (whether that be by tears or screaming or yelling or beating something).. Jesus is holding you in that time. He's sitting with you, He's loving you, and he's allowing you to just be.
And when the pain is over, when you work through it and don't ignore it.. He's still there, holding his hand out, ready and willing to help you back up and give you space and direction and another step towards being whole again.
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