Heartache

      Ever had a broken heart? If you answered, "no", think again. A broken heart is emotional pain or suffering one feels after losing a loved one through death, breakup, betrayal, or rejection. These traumatizing incidents trigger the brain and it releases chemicals that weaken the heart tissue. A broken heart hurts in the same way as pangs of other types of physical pain. When stress is added to a person suffering from a broken heart, more chemicals are released and trigger more areas of the brain, causing tightening in the chest. Social rejection also triggers the same chemicals that weaken heart tissue, therefore we refer to social rejection as "hurtful". A child may suffer from a broken heart due to a parent's neglect or lack of love for the child. It may follow the child throughout life and he/she may never understand what that dull hurt is.
      For many people, having a broken heart is something that may not be recognized at first, as it takes time for an emotional or physical loss to be fully acknowledged. We are not always aware of what we are feeling. As humans who don't understand all the emotions God has created us with, it may be hard to put them in words. Sometimes it takes a while to understand what we feel at a certain time. It may take a couple years and when we look back we can understand what we felt way back then.

Psalms 69:20  Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Psalms 34:18 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.

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