broken hearted

years ago when i had a broken heart...when i thought the world was over...when i wasn't sure i could take another breath, cry another tear, walk another mile, i felt alone, felt like i didn't have anyone...it was a long lonely journey going through a divorce. i lost many friends and no one seemed to want to listen to my sadness. i never expected something wonderful to come out of those circumstances! God does bring beauty from ashes. i had known and heard that my whole life however until you experience it first hand, you don't really know how that can feel...i had hoped that one day i could use all that unhappiness i had experienced to help someone else...today i am trying to be that to a very good friend. she is broken hearted, hurting, lonely, afraid...her dreams are crushed, her marriage is over and the man she's loved for years is living in sin....i got a text from her just yesterday that simply said..."i'm sad".....
there is a passage of scripture that i read often to remind me of that period in my life...i am forever grateful to the Lord for that group of verses he gave to me...to describe what i was feeling, what i had to do to trust God and then what He would ultimatly do for me some day....
this group of verses is just part of the passages that really took me through the rough times....verse 18 is still very very precious to me....


15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous,
and his ears are attentive to their cry;
16 but the face of the LORD is against those who do evil,
to blot out their name from the earth.

17 The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them;
he delivers them from all their troubles.
18 The LORD is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

19 The righteous person may have many troubles,
but the LORD delivers him from them all;
20 he protects all his bones,
not one of them will be broken.

i shared this with my friend hoping that one day soon God will comfort her broken heart as He did to me those many years ago...
if you think of it....please pray for my friend...she would love to know that many out there take her to the Lord each day...