There is a reason hearts hurt. Hearts hurt because there is loss…because there was once love and caring and connection and joy and now the place where it all landed is missing. Our heart is confused, sad and lost. We call it hurt.
Our heart is the place of feeling and emotion in us. Although our hurt is not a physical pain, our whole body feels it. We feel. We feel hollow, sick, sad, enraged, out of control, hopeless. It’s a special kind of hurt, a deep kind of hurt. It starts out as a nasty wound and later turns into a bruise that never quite heals. Always tender when touched.
So, what to do with a hurting heart? Hold it tenderly…your own or another’s. Give it space to grieve…your own or another’s. Invite the Divine to soothe and lift you. Release blame or attachment as you are able. Eventually, it happens. You find your bruised self loving more fully and connecting more intensely to all that is good and kind and beautiful in the world.
It is possible. Through the power of Love Itself.
With deep humility
Paula
