Encouraging words for troubling times.

here is a pain too deep for tears, and there are tears too deep to cry. Somewhere, buried inside our wellspring of life, our hopes, our dreams, our courage and our very essence lie shattered, torn and crushed.

Sometimes this happens in life, and, from pains suffered before, we know that this pain too shall pass away.

Yet, ironically, it feels almost good to hurt because somewhere we've been told we deserve this; this crushed hope is all we're worth. We don't deserve happiness because we're nothing.

And, in a sense, of ourselves we are nothing, but God makes us something.

It's a thin line we walk between nothing and something. Satan, in his rage to destroy us, strips that thin line bare, and we fall crashing into a heap of nothing.

Then God, in all His magnificent glory and power, reaches down to lift us out of our nothingness. He carefully, lovingly and mercifully pieces our life back together piece by piece, brick by brick, until we are once again something by His hand.

It isn't easy, because as the pieces are cleaned off it hurts, and it hurts even beyond hurt. But He restores hope, and therein lies our strength.

In Psalm 27:7 and 8 (Moffatt translation) David says, "O thou Eternal, listen to my cry, be gracious to me, answer me. `Tis my heart calling, `Thy face do I seek.'"

Then in Psalm 28:6 and 7 he says, "Blessed be the Eternal, who has listened to my voice of pleading! The Eternal is my strength and shield, my heart has faith in Him; so I am helped, my heart exults, and I sing to his praise."

You will sing again. You will be strong again, for the mortar God uses to put us back together is the mortar of love, joy, hope and strength. Then, when your life is once again pieced together and rebuilt, you will be a fortress: a masterpiece by God. GN

Related Information:

Table of Contents that includes "Too Deep for Tears"
Other Articles by Mona Schurter
Origin of article "Too Deep for Tears"
Keywords: Grief 

Grief:

• A Heart of Flesh
• In the Shadow of Death
• Coping With Depression
• Extending Our Hand to the Grieving
• Why Did Pamela Die?
• Even So, Come, Lord Jesus!
• Extending Our Hand to the Grieving, Part Two
• Real Men Don't Cry
• Walking Through the Valley of the Shadow -- The Pain of Losing a Child
• Will God Forget the Dead?
• For Men: Grief, and How to Deal With It
• Blessed Are Those Who Mourn
• Proverbs: The Heart May Sorrow
• Steps in Dealing With Grief
• How Can We Help Those Who Are Grieving?
• Satan's Role in Suffering

• The Only Sure Thing
• If a Man Die, Will He Live Again?
• The Resurrections of the Dead
• The Quest for Immortality
• Questions and Answers - Jul/Aug 2000
• People Believed in 'Going to Heaven' Long Before Christianity
• Do Good People Really Go to Heaven When They Die?
• "All Those in the Tombs Will Hear His Voice'
• Who Will Go to Hell?
• Everyone Will Have a Fair Chance!
• A Message of Hope Following the Death of a Loved One
• Should Christians Fear Death?
• To Hell and Back -- for a Popsicle
• Where Is the Grave?
• Hope of the Resurrection - Part One
• What I Learned From Talking With Teens About Death
• Do Some Bible Verses Teach We Have an Immortal Soul?
• Jesus Christ and Biblical Writers Compare Death to Sleep
• Is Heaven God's Reward for the Righteous?
• Pre-Christian Belief of an Afterlife in Heaven
• Paul's Desire to "Depart and Be With Christ"
• Are Some Tortured Forever in a Lake of Fire?
• The Biblical View of 'Hell'
• Lazarus and the Rich Man: Proof of Heaven and Hell?
• Introduction - What Happens After Death?
• The Mystery of Death
• Do Some Bible Verses Teach That We Have an Immortal Soul?
• What About Reported Life-After-Death Experiences?
• "It Is Appointed for Men to Die Once"