There are two easy mistakes many people make when they experience a relationship disappointment. The first mistake is that they get stuck in depression and hopelessness. They take months or years to recover, only to be disappointed again and to then spiral into another long season of grieving and hopelessness.
The other mistake many make is that they don’t grieve the disappointment at all and try to rush their healing, which in the process only prolongs their healing. They deny their need to grieve and they think they can just push past the pain. But in reality, they are not experiencing healing; rather, they are just burying their wounds deeper and deeper, making it that much harder to experience true healing in the future.
Therefore, when you experience a relationship disappointment, the Lord is usually leading you to take an appropriate amount of time to grieve while also then pushing you forward so you don’t get stuck in the past.
There are no cookie-cutter formulas here. Some will need to slow down and grieve the disappointment, while others need to stop grieving and start moving forward with the Lord. The key, again, is to refocus on God and fully submit to his guidance for you.
As Psalm 138:8 states, “The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.”
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There are two easy mistakes many people make when they experience a relationship disappointment. The first mistake is that they get stuck in depression and hopelessness. They take months or years to recover, only to be disappointed again and to then spiral into another long season of grieving and hopelessness.
The other mistake many make is that they don’t grieve the disappointment at all and try to rush their healing, which in the process only prolongs their healing. They deny their need to grieve and they think they can just push past the pain. But in reality, they are not experiencing healing; rather, they are just burying their wounds deeper and deeper, making it that much harder to experience true healing in the future.
Therefore, when you experience a relationship disappointment, the Lord is usually leading you to take an appropriate amount of time to grieve while also then pushing you forward so you don’t get stuck in the past.
There are no cookie-cutter formulas here. Some will need to slow down and grieve the disappointment, while others need to stop grieving and start moving forward with the Lord. The key, again, is to refocus on God and fully submit to his guidance for you.
As Psalm 138:8 states, “The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.”
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