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Surpassing the confines of just an emotion, a broken heart causes actual, physical suffering, a pang that can be felt in your chest cavity. The emptiness of a hollowed-out soul lies imprisoned in the ribcage and each bone aches from the inside out. Torment stretches its ugly fingers to the core of the mind where painful memories are housed, where hurtful words linger, and where swirling thoughts run rampant as it extends its cruel feet to the very pit of the stomach flooding the entire torso with grief, angst, and brokenness. The torso is the middlemost part of the body from which every appendage stems. It is your center, your equilibrium. Is it any wonder that when the heart is broken, everything else in life seems to fall out of balance?

"The human spirit can endure in sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?" 
 Proverbs 18:14 

There is hope, though. Psalm 126:5 encourages us that, "Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy." So, no matter the heartbreak, disappointment, disillusionment, betrayal, adversity, or calamity, keep walking, keep pressing, keep seeking, keep standing. When weariness sets in, rest. Lay your brokenness at His feet.


"You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. 
You have recorded each one in your book."
  Psalm 56:8
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