Healing Broken Hearts

We are called to compassion

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I had a friend who lost her only child, a daughter. The girl was murdered when she was in high school. Even 30 years later, when I met her, the mother’s heart was still broken.

I can’t even imagine the pain she experienced.

It’s not that I haven’t had my own share of pain. I am dealing with cancer, and it’s often very painful, yet, in retrospect — emotional and spiritual pain are worse than physical pain. At least, that is my opinion.

When my father died, that devastated me in a way that physical pain cannot.

Yet for those who know Christ, there is healing.

Psalm 147:3 says: He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

I have experienced this in my own life with my own wounds, and I’ve seen it in the lives of Christian friends. As human beings, we mourn, we cry out, we are angry and sad. Yet, when we lean on Christ, we open ourselves to healing.

And in many Bible verses, it tells us of the compassion of the Lord. In Luke 7, it tells us how Christ’s heart went out to a grieving mother, and in Mark 6 it tells us how He had compassion for a large crowd, for He saw them as sheep without a shepherd. These are just two examples out of many in the Bible that reveal His deep love…