When you are emotionally broken there are 2 choices

Does it feel like your world is shaky today?

I wonder if you, like me, stared at the new year with a face with joy and hope.

And then something caused you to break.

It left us breathless. Vulnerable. Helpless.

It is hard to put on a smile, or even our clothes, to meet everyday life in those moments.

I just want you to know you are not alone today.

How do you fix emotionally broken?

There are 2 choices when you feel emotionally broken.

1. Drown in fear-anger-frustration-self pity-doubt (fill in the blank, right?)

2. Choose to not let life keep you broken

Choice #1 gets us nowhere. It is a path that leads only to more brokenness. In other words, there is no chance of healing when we pick the first option.

Now, choice #2 is harder. We allow ourselves to absorb the shock, we pick ourselves up, and CHOOSE to move forward.

We can start with one small step. For me? It is gratitude. Listing things to be thankful for is a powerful weapon against troubles.

I am just feisty and defiant enough to look my problems in the face (after I crumble, that is okay to do you know. It is the staying crumbled that defeats us..) put my hands on my hip, and say,

“Oh YEAH trouble?”

The best weapon against emotionally broken living

My other tool, the most important thing I have? It’s faith. Let me share something with you…

I didn’t used to have faith. I chose #1 as my default. When I started learning about God’s promises I had NO clue what those crazy Bible words were talking about. Puh-lease.

Romans 5:3-5 “³We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they are good for us—they help us learn to be patient. ⁴And patience develops strength of character in us and helps us trust God more each time we use it until finally our hope and faith are strong and steady. ⁵Then, when that happens, we are able to hold our heads high no matter what happens and know that all is well, for we know how dearly God loves us, and we feel this warm love everywhere within us because God has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.

Those crazy words? I can tell you with every ounce of certainty I possess—they are true. With every trial, I become more practiced at getting back up.

And even when I don’t want to get up, it is too ingrained in being now to stay flat.

I will stand. When I can’t, I trust Him to lift me up until I can.”

Healing emotional brokenness

Shattered pieces can be mended. With some patience and endurance, God can put them back together. We won’t look the same.

But we’ll shine in an unexpected way. Choice #2 leads to holding our heads up high and looking for unanticipated beauty.

I heard someone say recently, “Fear is necessary for courage to exist. If you have doubts, it’s not an affront to God! It is necessary for our faith to be exercised”.

Prayer for feeling emotionally broken

God, I am broken. It feels impossible to think that difficulties are good for us. Yet, if given the chance you have always proven that you can make all things good. Even those hard times. I see without those hard things my faith would never have grown.

I wouldn’t have known you keep your word in amazing and unimaginable ways. Keep me strong and steady today. Teach me to hold my head up high, and to gently rest it against you when I am weary.