I wrote this for a friend but it may fit your situation today.
It's ok to feel your feelings. You have the right and the need to feel, hurt, rejected and maybe even incredibly angry at the situation you face. It is not our business as your friends to tell you how to feel. I have multiple painful situations with children right now and I feel all of those things I mentioned above. I have at times been hurt and betrayed in other important relationships and those feelings washed over me like a tsunami.
Just know your friends love you and they are trying to help the best way they know how..and our fumbling attempts are because you are loved profoundly and we don't want you in any distress.
Our well intentioned efforts overlooked the reality that we all have feet of clay and God considers our frame and we are but dust. It humors me to think of myself as a dust bunny...but here we are.
What I have been doing of late is easing my mind by remembering to be still and known that he is God and when obtrusive even destructive thoughts come is I acknowledge them and let them pass over me. I see them like a dark threatening cloud in an otherwise sunny clear sky, I name the feeling as accurately as I can and then I let it pass.
There is a connection phrase in the Bible
"And it came to pass" it is meant to further the story but it has a special meaning to me. I remember that all things pass away even hard times and negative feelings. The darkest of nights is followed by a glorious dawn. Stay strong you are in my prayers.
Bless the Lord , O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord , O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children; To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them. The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all. Bless the Lord , ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. Bless ye the Lord , all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. Bless the Lord , all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the Lord , O my soul.
Psalms 103:1-22 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/psa.103.1-22.KJV
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