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| Proverbs
14.10 (NIV) Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can share its joy. |
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| Grief is an individual journey.* |
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Our inside is a lonely place. While
I may have been through the exact experience you are having right now, I cannot
share your exact feelings. I may understand your pain or your joy - I can
relate to it; but I don’t have the rest of your life experience in common with
you so I don’t know “exactly how you feel.” I only know exactly how I feel. Except
sometimes I don’t even know that!
In
I Corinthians 2.11 we read, “For who among men knows the thoughts of a man
except the man’s spirit within him?” Don’t we know the answer to that? God
knows our thoughts and feels our pain. I am unceasingly amazed that the Creator
and Organizer of the Universe cares about my feelings. Even when I am shallow
and petty, he cares enough to point it out to me and help me get over it. When I take delight in something that I know
that no one else will “get,” God gets it. He shares my joy – even when it’s
silly.
The
old song says, “Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen.” I might add a verse that
says, “Nobody knows the joy I’ve seen, either.” Except my Heavenly Father.
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| Something there is in every sorrow, and in every joy, which no one else can share.* |
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