Greetings Dear Reader,
“You're losin' all
your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away”
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away”
When we are hard-hearted to love, we calcify our feelings as
well. I have been in the place where I
refused to feel. I have used drugs and
alcohol to numb the pain. I have pursued
temporary satisfaction to distract me for the great dissatisfaction. None of it is a tenable or sustainable solution.
After we invest time in resisting love, we become numb to
the feelings that would lead us to feeling loved. Joy is elusive. Mirth is focused on things that harm us instead
of being rich and pure. Most of the
things that please us when we are hard-hearted to love actually damage us. Then, they leave us. They no longer work as a substitute. They no longer satisfy. The thrills are gone.
Our stony hearts no longer beat with the anticipation of
what great thing will make us feel loved.
We have hardened ourselves because it might hurt. We have to face things that are undesirable
if we are to be loved. We must confront
our failures and the failures of others that hurt us with forgiveness and
grace.
The stone of our hearts must be chipped away so that we feel
the things required to forgive and seek forgiveness. We are going to have to ride those highs and
lows to get there. I have been through
this at an intense level over the last few months. I had no idea how much I had cut myself off
from feeling loved and just how hard my heart was becoming. I can see it easily in others but was blind
to the strong coil of chain I carried around my own heart.
We all do this to one degree or another. We search for meaning without love. We try to survive without that which is essential
to all that we are becoming. If we
resist long enough the feelings flee and we are left empty and wanting. We wonder in the quiet dark why we are
alone. It is almost always because we
have resisted the love offered us because it did not fit the way we wished for
it to fit.
We return over and over to the things we think will satisfy
or please us. We take what we need or
want and use it as a fleeting temporary fix for our hunger. It is not until we find the courage to accept
being loved in the way others offer love to us that we begin to feel genuinely loved
Dear Reader. If we keep trying to do it
on our terms, we will drain the things that seem to be temporary fixes. We will become numb to the things that no
longer satisfy and find we are trying to drink from a dry well.
There is, however, Jesus.
He promises that he will satisfy. He will love us deeply and richly. He will chip away our stony hearts and replace
them with a heart of flesh that beats for the good of others. There is a way to become someone who loves and
allows him or herself to be loved. It
does, however, require us to be willing to do it.
Dried Up Well –
Mustard Seed Faith
All through this life
You wander her and there
Looking for something anything some place where people care
You search for meaning in a dark and dying world
You get no smiles except from those you know so well
And it's so hard
To even tell
You're trying to drink
From a dried up well!!
And through the years
The many roads you take
The many dreams you had the life you tried to make
The precious moments the suffering and the pain
The many times your happiness became tears that fell like
rain
And the emptiness you feel inside
Is like a bird
That that hasn't learn to fly!
And now a door
Opens wide for you
The door is Jesus
Won't you come and walk on through?
His living waters will fill your dried up well
And overflow it with a love that you can tell is the answer
your looking for
All you dream of
And so much more!
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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