Some people did you wrong. But you did yourself a deeper wrong by holding onto your bitterness. Sure, you were justified to feel the way you did. Who wouldn't in your shoes? You were hurt, broken, drug through the mud, and there's a hundred different ways you could've handled it... most of which may have felt a little better in the moment. But none of them would have brought you peace like learning to let go.You're not perfect, you're not gonna get it right all the time, and that's ok. Accepting that you're a work in progress means you have...
I've spent most of my life wandering through the desert, this empty wasteland that lives inside me. My eyes distracted by every fleshly mirage that pulls their attention, my mind like a wavering wind that can't decide if it's hot or cold, my heart starving for what's beyond the nothing that lays in front of me.I'd be lying if I said I know where I'm headed, I don't. I just get up and walk, one foot in front of the other, suspicious with every step that I've circled this path a thousand times before. Sometimes I believe there's an oasis...
When you search the deepest part of yourself unable to find strength, unable to find hope, or even the will to take another step forward. When you hit rock bottom and purpose eludes you, hold onto this truth... A man's strength was designed to grow tired, his hope fashioned to fail, his will destined to be broken. All to remind him that the source of his strength was never meant to be found in himself. For a man who finds his strength in the Lord is a man who will face his greatest of trials and never be crushed by...