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Imagine leaning over and telling an individual who is experiencing excruciating pain from falling down and breaking their ankle \u2013 \u201cIt\u2019s going to be ok\u2026it could be worse\u2026I know someone who is in a complete body cast.\u201d <\/strong>Although the statement may be true, to speak it at that particular moment would be considered, among other things, very heartless to that person\u2019s immediate need of help and comfort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise, to approach an individual who is in excruciating pain from a broken heart and make statements such as \u2013 \u201cIt\u2019s going to be ok\u2026it could be worse\u2026I know someone who has it far worse than you\u2026\u201d<\/strong> would be, among other things, very insensitive to that person\u2019s immediate need as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My thought today? Let\u2019s think and pray before we speak to hurting hearts. Sometimes it\u2019s best to say nothing. Other times we may need to speak but, if so, let\u2019s ask the Lord to help us to choose our words carefully. Careless words spoken in haste will only deepen wounds. Careless words spoken in haste may also earn US a trip around the block in THEIR shoes. (Although this is normally a very effective course on \u201cCompassion\u201d, the class time is not a very pleasant experience\u2026not at all!) When in doubt, praying for that individual is always in order!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe LORD is gracious, and full of compassion\u2026\u201d Psalm 145:8<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imagine leaning over and telling an individual who is experiencing excruciating pain from falling down and breaking their ankle \u2013 \u201cIt\u2019s going to be ok\u2026it could be worse\u2026I know someone who is in a complete body cast.\u201d Although the statement may be true, to speak it at that particular moment would be considered, among other things, very heartless to that person\u2019s immediate need of help and comfort. Likewise, to approach an individual who is in excruciating pain from a broken heart and make statements such as \u2013 \u201cIt\u2019s going to be ok\u2026it could be worse\u2026I know someone who has it far worse than you\u2026\u201d would be, among other things, very insensitive to that person\u2019s immediate need as well. My thought today? Let\u2019s think and pray before we speak to hurting hearts. Sometimes it\u2019s best to say nothing. Other times we may need to speak but, if so, let\u2019s ask the Lord to help us to choose our words carefully. Careless words spoken in haste will only deepen wounds. Careless words spoken in haste may also earn US a trip around the block in THEIR shoes. (Although this is normally a very effective course on \u201cCompassion\u201d, the class time is not a very pleasant experience\u2026not at all!) When in doubt, praying for that individual is always in order! \u201cThe LORD is gracious, and full of compassion\u2026\u201d Psalm 145:8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47,63,59,76,5,65,14,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comfort","category-compassion","category-gods-love","category-love","category-photos","category-relationships","category-the-tongue","category-wisdom-discernment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-2NI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11377,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions\/11377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}