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Times of hardship can act as both an indicator, as well as a cure, for our broken relationship with our Creator.
Sep 18, 2025
It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and forest fires.
Jesus didn't come to earth to establish a new religion. He came to restore a broken relationship. He came to make the primary, primary again. The secondary activity of obedience to the law of God was always intended to serve the primary activity: to love God and enjoy Him forever. When that is primary, the secondary becomes a labor of love, a joyful, and "easy" burden to bear. (Matthew 11:28-30
She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.
Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on
Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.
Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.
Choices can change our lives profoundly. The choice to mend a broken relationship, to say "yes" to a difficult assignment, to lay aside some important work to play with a child, to visit some forgotten person - these small choices may affect many lives eternally.
In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were surprised: They expected to hear stories of broken relationships and wounded feelings. But the top reason given by young adults was that they did not get answers to their questions.
All love is of God, the Apostle John reminds us, and because love cannot be buried in a coffin, the beautiful but broken relationships of Earth are resumed in the Father's home above where, as members of the same family, we dwell together in perfect harmony.
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.
All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements
Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.
Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
The heart was made to be broken.
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.
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