How heavy is your burden? 

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Why are you here? 

You may have stumbled onto this page by accident or clicked out of curiosity. You may not be in an ounce of pain or for that matter you may think this lens is a wasted space on squidoo.

The tags phrases below were not created by me. You or your peers used these phrases to find this page. This tells me that some of you are hurting right now, some of you are in agony, and some of you are considering suicide!

For those of you who found this page out of pain: DON'T GIVE UP! I don't know who you are and I won't claim to know your pain. I won't tell you to grow up or just get over it. Let's face it, it hurts and it hurts badly!

Consider this first:

You did not choose this pain! Even if you made some bad decisions in life, you did not choose this pain!

We are all equipped to handle emotional pain but there is a limit to what we can handle! Have you found that limit? If so, your pain may control you, even make you consider suicide!

If your car runs out of gas, it shuts down no matter where it is or how busy the road is... it can't go on! While you may want your car to drive just a mile more to get to that gas station, it will not happen without the fuel to go on.

You are the same way! You may have all the will power and drive in the world, you may be exceedingly strong but when you run out of emotional gas, that's it; you're shutting down!

What can you do? The "to the point" methods are to reduce the amount of pain you are in which isn't always that simple and to learn to cope, share and give away your pain. Give it away? Who would want it right?

Let me say this, I am not a doctor, I don't have all the answers but I hurt and I have seen the bottom. I want to share one of my experiences with you and let you know that YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

Table of Contents 

• How heavy is your burden?
• Why are you here?
• In a War!
• Tag Cloud of Pain
• To be Held!
• What's in your Junk Drawer?
• Crying out to Jesus:
• Where does it hurt?
• Cry out to Jesus - AMAZING Song!
• Max Lucado
• Daily Devotional
• Like what you read?
• In response to SwanSword
• Back for more or gone for good?
• Another kind of pain...
• World Prayer Team
• Christian music on eBay
• Other lenses by Forgiven:
• Some cool vids
• Modest Needs

In a War! 

Tag Cloud of Pain 

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To be Held! 

What's in your Junk Drawer? 

Let go and Grow!

• My cordless phone battery keeps going dead. I have one of those manual labor phones. I don't know if everyone has seen them. You know that one that you must stand up to answer the phone. That may be why the cordless phone keeps going dead; I am too lazy to put it on the base...
• After digging out that old manual labor phone that I need a crash course on using and coming to the understanding that I can't just leave it off the hook sitting next to my recliner or it will start barking something really loud until you put it back on it's base... Wow I am being trained to put a phone back up! Maybe next I will take the trash out!
• Any who.. I figured what I need is one of those phone splitter thingies that let you plug two phones into one jack that way I can have a sort of lazy phone redundancy.
• I am a little on the tight end of the spectrum. You know, squeeze a dollar out of a dime! I know I have one of those phone splitters somewhere and where is the first place you look? Right; that junk drawer in the kitchen! Yep, the one that you have to slam a few times and break a few pencils and wedge something in on top that makes it so hard to open again.
• I opened that drawer up finally and what I realized was that I got lured into checking out all that stuff, you know the junk. I scattered it all out on the counter top. I was amazed I still had all those dead AA batteries! You better believe those went in the freezer! Ok, maybe not he-he. Anyway, back on track. After rummaging through all this junk I realized something. I forgot what I was looking for. I got so involved in "What's in my junk drawer" that I even forgot about the phone all together.
• I want to share something with you that is not that easy for me to share. I am one of those that grew up without a lot of hugs from my Daddy. I was instilled to believe that showing emotion at all was a sign of weakness.
• I have had a few of those "this is life" bombs dropped on me. You know, I thought I really had it together. I thought that I was putting all my hope and trust in God's hands but in all honesty I was too proud of a manly man to realize that I have no control over my life or of the lives around me. It was not until I lost ALL control that I could truly give the Lord my trust and devotion. Finally after 35 years of being in the swine business I came back home to my father's open arms. Read this to see what I mean: Luke 15: 11-32
• I was hurting really badly after one of those life bombs hit me. I went to my heavenly father for comfort and of course I received it. But it took yet one more of those life bombs to make me truly understand how to receive his tender touch and loving arms around me.
• After getting yet another call with the worst news could I get by telephone; I broke down. Finally after all these years I broke! Me the man who does not cry, me the man who breaks his foot and can't remember how! Me the man who (thinks) is in control of his life and the lives of his family... I broke.
• The first feeling I had was to find someone to comfort me. I was crying in the pharmacy while paying for my medicine and almost talked to the girl taking my money. I thought to myself; if only she will ask me if I am ok. I ran umm... I mean I hobbled out to the car and no sooner than I sat down I explode into a fit of tears. I could not breathe, I could not see. I thought I was going to die. I finally got enough composure to drive away from the person sitting next to me whom I thought; I kind of wish they would ask me am I ok.
• I drove to my pastor's house and he was not home. So I thought; he is a preacher, he must be at church. So I got it together again and drove to the church. No one was there, I thought if only someone would drive up and ask me if I am ok. So then I called his cell and guess what? He was not there. So, after hanging up and crying some more I called again and left him a message. I don't think it was very understandable. I bet my pastor was really worried about me when he got out of his meeting and listened to or umm tried to decipher my message.
• Upon leaving this message I hung up the phone and finally; I was a broken child who only needed a father's arms around me. So I dialed the prayer phone to God. You know what? I got through with out any effort. Just as I can hear any of your voices He told me. "Come to me first my child" as I poured out my heart to Him and begged Him to take away this pain I heard again "A little while longer my child". Then I don't know how to put it to words but I felt Him hold me. I cried my heart out to Him and he ran down the street to meet me! Luke 15: 11-32
• After pulling all that junk out of the junk drawer I realized something that is life changing that I had heard before from Dr. Stanley.
  
  
  
  • 1. Tell God what your burden is.
  
  
  • 2. Give your burden to him.
  
  
  • 3. Move your focus from your burden to the burden bearer. Matthew 11:28-30
  
  
• It is so easy to loose focus of the burden bearer and be consumed with the junk in the drawer. It is not until we put ALL our focus, ALL our love, ALL our illusion of control into his hands that we can truly know what our father can and will freely give to anyone who asks and believes in the Son and savior Jesus the Christ.
• If I could do anything to prevent anyone from going through the pain I have went through in order for your eyes to be opened I would, but I know that some of you may be doing step 1. and 2. but maybe too preoccupied with what's in your junk drawer to really focus on step 3. It is my prayer that if you are one of those like me that you would close that drawer and answer the phone. Our Father is waiting by it with an open ear and then with open arms.

Crying out to Jesus: 

These are a few actual prayers.

I just can't take it, it's too hard and I'm so lonely, I don't get a companion in all of this and it's not fair, I have to do everything alone, why? what have I done so wrong that I don't get love??? I really want to take myself out. -L

Please for the ministry God has called me to. I am a full-time Senior Pastor, but feel I have had no effectiveness of late. I feel like I'm going through the motions--almost numb. Beginning to question God's call on my life. It's so hard to go on. -E

I pray that I will stop hating myself. I hate what I have done to my family, but I hate myself so much that it is difficult to function. I want God to call me home, I hate myself too much to continue here. I am just hurting my family. -G

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In response to SwanSword 

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First, I truly am sorry about your pain. If it is divorce or unfaithfulness, I do understand because I have been there. If the pain drops you to the bottom and it looks like there is no way out... I understand.

My understanding and my prayers are all I have to give. Society has been made to believe everything has a step by step "how to" fix anything that goes wrong. This page is not a "how to" with an outline that fixes everything. While I know that God can heal any wound in an instant, all wounds need time and some wounds need professional therapy that go beyond the scope of this page. This page is here for the purpose of sharing an experience in my life that brought me to the bottom where hope seemed lost and despair was all I had.

Personally, I don't subscribe into the Dr.Phil philosophy of life. There was no outline that helped me to recover. My help came from the arms of a loving and fair God who gave me the comfort I needed and yes, that was about feeling good. I needed to feel good. I really thought I was going to die from the emotional pain I was experiencing. The point to the story of "What's in your Junk drawer" is my looking for that comfort I so desired in other people, even my pastor but ultimately the only relief was through God. So in closing, I don't have all the answers, I don't have a PhD, I barely even have a GED but the God of the universe is willing and ready to help anyone but I just don't see Him forcing Himself upon you. We must take the first step and that is a step of faith.

I pray and will continue to pray with all my heart for you and anyone else reading this, that God will comfort and mend those scars that run so deep.

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