by Lysa TerKeurst | May 31, 2017 | Blog, Overcoming, Rejection
I don’t like to be in pain. In any way. And if I’m not careful, this aversion to pain can lead to me grabbing at anyone and anything to fill the deep ache in my soul. Maybe you can relate. When you’re lonely and you see your ex-boyfriend post a picture with a new girl...
by Lysa TerKeurst | Feb 16, 2017 | Blog, Rejection, Spiritual Growth, Uninvited
I want life to be as stable as a math problem. Two plus two always equals four. It will equal four today, tomorrow and into the tomorrows years from now. Math equations don’t experience breakups and letdowns. They don’t get cancer. Or have their best friend get...
by Lysa TerKeurst | Feb 1, 2017 | Blog, Rejection, Spiritual Growth, Uninvited
No one wants to have their heart crushed. But being wounded in deep places happens. Sometimes it just seems to be part of the rhythm of life. And when these hard times come, we feel it all so very deeply. And we wonder if others have these hard, hard moments. After...
by Lysa TerKeurst | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog, Rejection, Uninvited
If you’ve ever heard me give my testimony, you know part of what I share is being a little girl twirling around next to my daddy, wishing I could know that he loved me. Maybe in his own way, he did love me. But something was broken in our relationship that left me...
by Lysa TerKeurst | Oct 7, 2016 | Blog, Rejection, Uninvited
The plastic seats were green. The desks a dirty beige. The perfect pale color to make pencil marks easy to read. That’s how I saw what was making the group of girls in front of me laugh. They looked at me and then added to Jennifer’s desk art: a frizzy-headed stick...
by Lysa TerKeurst | Sep 8, 2016 | Blog, Rejection, Uninvited
I felt so fragile sitting in the parking lot, too sad to stop crying. And although I had a list of things that really couldn’t be put off another day, I was now entirely too tired to run errands or do much of anything. So there I sat. Alone. Moments earlier, a friend...
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