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If you’ve been betrayed don’t waste your pain. Don’t make a shire out of your suffering but don’t deny it either. Don’t pretend it doesn’t hurt but don’t wallow in your pain either. Ask the Lord to help you learn from this tragic experience. Let your pain make you more compassionate, more sensitive to the suffering of others. Ask the Lord to show you what part, if any, you may have planned in this tragedy. And finally ask the Lord to help you forget this painful experience but to never forget the lessons learned.
“My suffering was good for me,
— Psalms 119:71 (NLT)
for it taught me to pay attention to your decrees.”
Lord help us to embrace the pain of our broken relationship that we might learn from it. Help us never make the same mistake. Amen.