Love/ Music Renews/ Spiritual

Hurting Hearts

My heart has been heavy for people who are in pain around me.

We found out a man who has lived beside us for years, one whom I’ve only said hi to. One whose pain, disfunction, addiction and odd actions with my children caused me to fear him and avoid him, took his own life.  I don’t know much about the situation, but I do know that he was hurting enough to believe that the only way out was to kill himself.  
The one thing I did know about him was that he slept with the TV on.  He lived in the basement of the house next door, and when I would walk down my stairs, from my upstairs window, I could see in a crack of his makeshift curtains –a shirt hanging in the window that always looked like a ghost.  The crack showed only a slice of his TV, which was on 24/7, tuned to black and white shows of the past.  I’m sure the TV was on the day they found his body.  I am sad to think of this man, dying alone in a basement lit with black and white.
I regret not pushing past my fear to at least try to get to know his story and offer him some hope. We even could have talked television, it would have been a start, maybe have led to something more meaningful.  I wish now to tell him that there is a God who knows, as the song below says,

“You know my heart is heavy
And the hurt is deep
But when I feel like giving up
You’re reminding me
That we all fall down sometimes
But when I hit the ground You
Lift me up when I am weak
Your arms wrap around me
Your love catches me so I’m letting go
You lift me up when I can’t see
Your heart is all that I need
Your love carries me so I’m letting go”


Are you hurting today?  If so, please take a listen and know that the God of the Universe loves you, no matter what.

Watch the official video by the Afters: 

Lift Me Up-{The Afters}
You lift me up with your love
You lift me up with your love
You lift me up with your love
You lift me up

Waiting for the sunrise
Waiting for the day
Waiting for a sign
That I’m where you want me to be

You know my heart is heavy
And the hurt is deep
But when I feel like giving up
You’re reminding me
That we all fall down sometimes
But when I hit the ground

You lift me up when I am weak
Your arms wrap around me
Your love catches me so I’m letting go
You lift me up when I can’t see
Your heart is all that I need
Your love carries me so I’m letting go

You lift me up with your love
You lift me up with your love
You lift me up with your love
You lift me up

I know I’m not perfect
I know I make mistakes
I know that I have let you down
But you love me the same

And when I’m surrounded
When I lose my way
When I’m crying out and falling down
You are here to

Lift me up when I am weak
Your arms wrap around me
Your love catches me so I’m letting go
You lift me up when I can’t see
Your heart is all that I need
Your love carries me so I’m letting go

I can see the dawn is breaking
I am feeling overtaken with your love
With your love
I don’t know what I can offer
In this moment I surrender to your love
To your love

You lift me up when I am weak
Your arms wrap around me
Your love catches me so I’m letting go

You lift me up when I am weak
Your arms wrap around me
Your love catches me so I’m letting go
You lift me up when I can’t see
Your heart is all that I need
Your love carries me so I’m letting go

I can see the dawn is breaking
I am feeling overtaken with your love

You lift me up with your love
You lift me up with your love
You lift me up with your love
You lift me up

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  • jeana
    July 25, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    Thank you for this post, and your reminder to us of how important it is to show God’s love to others through a conversation, encourement, and prayer. I’m sorry you’re hurting friend.

  • Ashley @ Coffee and Apple Juice
    July 24, 2011 at 10:21 pm

    Thank you for this post. It was very convicting to me as I have neighbors that I have been purposely distancing myself from….. :/

  • Corn in my Coffee-Pot
    July 24, 2011 at 6:32 pm

    Pastor spoke on this very subject today: Knowing why we ARE WHERE we are, Knowing our Gift, and Knowing the Work that HAS to be done.

    I pray that you are comforted in the hurt you feel- for this man and his pain; and even in the possibility of unwarranted fear. But know this,
    God has you there for HIS Glory. Regardless of the outcome in these circumstances- This man’s actions have EFFECTED CHANGE in YOUR Heart.
    That is for God’s Glory– so in that we can rejoice!

    Thanks for posting this.
    …Pat

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