Forsaken

It’s happened to all of us.

It might have been a simple schoolyard experience, with kids unleashing cruelty as any only they can. It might have been a friend, who lost their tolerance for your company. It might have been a love, who found another. It might have been a family member who turned and walked away. In any case, to be forsaken hurts as deep as any insult.

To be admired and liked, accepted and trusted, embraced and loved, and then to be turned away is a gut-wrenching experience.

Mother Teresa said there is no worse disease in all this world than being unwanted.

Humans will be selfish. We can be cruel and self-possessed. We will follow our base nature, blowing past whoever gets in the way. And often others will pay the price.

If you are one of those who has been rejected in this life, God still wants you.

Photo by RupertGeneration

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. And before you were born, I consecrated you.”

He doesn’t want us to waste our lives. He has a plan for you and is ready to help you pick up the pieces and find it.

It’s never to late to restore even a small measure of dignity. There may not be full restitution and things will never be the same, but a broken spirit never glorifies God.

Who are the forsaken that we can bind up?

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