Bridges

Don’t make permanent decisions off of temporary emotions. I have said it before and I will say it again….Don’t make permanent decisions off of temporary emotions.

I have been tested in this area recently and for the most part I survived. There was lots of tears and lots of praying but I didn’t react to a very hurtful experience the way I thought i would initially. It took me a good week to have my emotions settled down enough to be able to forgive and move forward. People hurt people, I know this very well. Its not my first time being hurt and I know it certainely won’t be my last. I had to not make a permanent decision based off my very hurt temporary emotions. It’s hard to do something that doesn’t come naturally. Why does the right thing always have to be the hardest thing to do? My prayer now has to be for God to change my heart. To receive love, I have to give love. Even when I am hurt. I have to be careful and not wallow to long. Our own difficult experiences heighten our sensitivity to the hard times others endure and enable us to respond with empathy. A natural human reaction to pain is to isolate ourselves in a fog of self pity. Gods intent is that we learn from him how to uplift others. It is his desire that we learn to see beyond ourselves. Hebrews 12:7 - Endure hardships as discipline.

My heart was temporarily broken into a million pieces but as days turn into weeks God is picking those pieces up and I am slowly starting to feel whole again. If I would have reacted a bridge would have been burned and as my hurt got less and less everyday I could not have crossed that bridge again. A friendship would have ended and Satan would have smiled.

Don’t make permanent decisions off of temporary emotions.