]Real friends don’t gossip… they don’t betray…they pray. And so, this Heart2Heart healing time in the House of Love is just for you… a quiet place where you can finally set down the heavy weight you have been carrying. I know your heart has been pierced by someone you trusted… someone who promised to keep the stories of your heart safe… someone who should have protected you… someone close enough to wound you in places only trust can reach. And betrayal comes in many forms… sometimes through gossip… sometimes through broken promises… sometimes through abandonment… sometimes through deception… sometimes through rejection… sometimes through someone walking away when you needed them to stay… sometimes through someone choosing someone else over you… sometimes through emotional neglect… sometimes through harsh words spoken when your heart was already tender… sometimes through someone using your vulnerability against you… sometimes through someone pretending to care while quietly wounding you behind your back. Whatever form it took, the wound was real… and it touched a tender place inside you.
And you are not confused about whether you feel safe with them… you already know you don’t. Trust was broken… and because trust was broken, communication faded too. But that does not mean you haven’t forgiven them. Forgiveness lives in your heart… even while wisdom guards the inner courts of your soul. You can forgive someone completely and still choose to love them from a safe distance… you can release the hurt and still refuse to give them access to the tender places of your heart again. They may no longer be part of your inner circle… but that does not mean you wish them harm. You simply no longer trust them with the stories of your heart… and that is wisdom, not fear.
What they did to you speaks of the unhealed wounds inside their own heart… not yours. You do not carry responsibility for their choices… you do not carry shame for closing the door to protect your heart… you do not carry guilt for not wanting to be hurt like that again. And your silence toward them was not wrong… it was wisdom… it was peace keeping… it was choosing not to return hurt for hurt. And even though you no longer share your heart with them… you still pray for them. You pray they will heal… you pray they will discover who they are in Christ… you pray they will know their worth and value and the deep Love of God so they can learn to love and treat others, including themselves, with His Love. You pray they will be healed from whatever inside them caused them to betray you… because you do not want them to keep hurting inside or hurting anyone else again.
And here inside the House of Love… you are safe. None of that hurtful behavior lives here… none of those whispers or wounds or betrayals can cross the threshold of the Home of His Heart. When you step inside, Love Himself spreads His feathered wings around you… wrapping you in the warmth of His tenderness… and every arrow that was aimed at your back falls powerless to the ground. This is what He does for you… His Child of Love. He turns toward every weapon formed against you and places Himself between you and the wound… He shields your heart with His own presence… He guards your name in the light of His Love… He refuses to let the harm done to you define you. And even in the places where the not so good has touched your life… He gathers it into His hands and brings something good out of it… because nothing that happens to His Child of Love is ever wasted inside the House of Love.
Here… you can rest. Here… you can breathe again. Here… you can lay down the heavy baggage of hurt at the door of Love and never pick it up again. Here… you can heal Heart2Heart with the One who never betrays… never wounds… never speaks a word that harms. And here, in the warmth of His kindness, every sorrow that followed you in begins to flee away in the light of His Love. Come inside, Love… there is room for you here… there is time for you here… there is healing for you here… you are safe inside the House of Love.
“He causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God.” Romans 8:28 (NLT)
“No weapon will be able to hurt you.” Isaiah 54:17 (GNT)
Heart2Heart in His Love,
Momo Smiley
222 to the 222’tune Of His LOVESONG ! His Love Notes He sings over me composes His Love Songs -my Godsongs- through me! ~ ~♥ 2 ♥ ~ Momo Smiley
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