It could always be worse...right?

So you know when something that you think is totally tragic, and sometimes really is, happens and there is always that handy friend there to tell you, "Hey, it could always be worse." Well...I was someones "it could always be worse" today, and I have to tell you that at first I was all like..."woah...depressed...you're right my situation is TOTALLY worse than that"(sad face) but then I thought about the mother and father who lost their precious 8 year old son in Boston 2 weeks ago and numerous others who could say that their situation is totally worse than mine. Mine didn't seem as sad in that moment...

 Point being that there are a lot of hurting hearts out there in the world tonight. Our friends, family, coworkers, the lady behind you in the self checkout line at Wal-mart, people you know are hurting. Hearts are aching and broken and to be honest we probably have no clue that someone close to us is searching desperately for something to ease or take away the hurt. I think that is why I am so into sharing my story and laying my heart out in there in the open for all of the you to see...good, bad, and ugly though it may be. I want those hurting hearts, especially those of my fellow sisters who are enduring this roller coaster ride of miscarriage and infertility, to know that it doesn't have to hurt forever...that there is a hope and peace for your tired and weary heart. Jesus.

Today at church we were discussing the cross, picturing the cross and what it meant to us as we held it in our minds eye...to me it was hope and freedom...yes hope and freedom from the weight of my sin, but also a hope and freedom from the weight of sorrow, sadness, burden, heartbreak...my God died on that cross to bear my burden for ME...all of it. In that single thought there is such a fullness of hope.

I don't really know where I am going with this...I just know that we need to be a body of believers, people, whatever you want to call it, who love with out condition as often as we can...on whoever we can...you never know that lady behind you in line at the self check in Wal-mart could have a heart that is battered and scared and you might just be able to give her some of the hope and healing that she is searching for.  

*Thinking of all of the mothers who have lost a precious child, baby, angel baby on this Bereaved Mothers Day with a full heart...may you all be greatly blessed...