If you’ve ever read more than a few Psalms, you’ll quickly learn It’s okay to have an occasional meltdown. But choose the proper venue to have it. Go to your prayer closet, in the loving presence of your Heavenly Father who will carry you through and give you the grace to move forward.
Emotional Health
Jack Frost
Change anything that is not comfortable with love.
Elisabeth Elliot
To love means to open ourselves to suffering. Shall we shut our doors to love, then and ‘be safe’?” That’s the only alternative, really. But locking ourselves up and never facing another person won’t fix what’s really going on in our souls.
David Wilkerson
When you are deeply hurt, no person on this earth can shut out the innermost fears and deepest agonies. The best of friends cannot really understand the battle you are going through or the wounds inflicted on you. Only God can shut out the waves of depression and feelings of loneliness and failure that come over you. Faith in God’s love alone can salvage the hurt mind. The bruised and broken heart that suffers in silence can be healed only by a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit, and nothing short of divine intervention really works.
Jason Vallotton
Insecurity, loneliness, frustration, self-hatred, anger, or the like—that goes unchecked will eventually grow into something massive. It may not be today or tomorrow, but it’s much like a sliver under your skin. Left unattended, that sliver will begin to fester and grow an infection until it’s so painful that you don’t want anyone to touch it. But until you remove the sliver, the infection will continue to grow.
Jason Vallotton
“Take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5). Treat every thought that’s dangerous to your identity or contrary to what He says about you as a trespasser. These thoughts are evil by nature and are only there to erode your identity. You have permission to tell any thought that does not line up with God’s Word to leave your mind.
Jason Vallotton
Forgiveness is an act of the will, not an act of the emotions. Therefore, you cannot measure the depth of your forgiveness by your feelings. When Jesus forgave us for all of our sins, He gave us the power to forgive everybody who’s wronged us. We know when we have truly forgiven, because we no longer want the one who has wronged us to be punished. Sometimes forgiveness is like a seed planted in the good soil of your heart. As you water the seed of forgiveness by reminding yourself over and over again that you choose to release from punishment the person or persons who have harmed you, the pain in your soul begins to dissipate. Once you have made the right choices, your wounds stop festering and your heart heals.
Jason Vallotton
Many of us were taught lies like, “pain is weakness leaving the body,” or “what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger.” The truth is that[emotional] pain is a need begging to be met. The longer a person lives in pain, the more likely it is that his or her heart will shut down. See, most of us don’t even know who we are, because we haven’t stopped long enough to say hello to ourselves or ask ourselves, “How can I help you?”
C.S. Lewis
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching,” than to say “My heart is broken.”