A Prayer for the BrokenHearted

Father of the broken-hearted daughter…


oh, hear our prayer….


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Give Your daughter the wisdom to know it:


Hiding when you’re hurting won’t heal you and growing isolated can just let infection grow.


Give Your daughter the love to live it:


The secret way to heal a broken heart is to let love leak out like an ocean through all the cracks.


Give Your daughter grace to do the crazy impossible:


It’s the hurting and wounded who are always the ones called to be medics — to administer lavish grace, to cast the messy in the best, merciful light.


The best way to tend to your open wounds is to open your arms. Out-loving is the only ointment that healed anything.


Let the broken choose it: When you’re most wounded by words, run to the only Word that always brings healing.


Let the broken see it: When you’re wounded and need dressing, look in the mirror, touch you face, and see how He clothes you in righteousness, wraps you in promises, swathes you in a Saviorwho saves.


When you have Jesus on the inside, you’re never on the outside.


Let the broken say it: When you’re bruised by lies, believe truth and whisper it louder: I am my Beloved’s.


When Love’s got hold of you, there isn’t a lie in the universe that can pull you apart.


Let the broken trust it: Giving the benefit of the doubt — is what benefits the people of the Faith.


Doesn’t love always believe the best, not the worst?


And may that wind the brokenhearted daughter faces, may it fly her hair like a glory flag,


And may the hills that rise before her be but an exhilaration,


And may all her trials be but a trail,


all the stones on the way be but grace stairs to God.


:


In name of Jesus who broke His heart to heal ours…


 


 


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