Stitch by Stitch

A dear friend sent this to me this week and I wanted to share it because it might help someone as much as it did me.  Thanks, J.R., I love you.


"Came across this verse this morning in my reading time...
Psalm 147:3 "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds."
Did a little word study and here is something to give you peace and assurance: "Brokenhearted" does describe your condition. It translates- to burst, tear, crush and break into pieces. The word for "wounds" translates pain, sorrow, displeasure, grief, wrest (from wrestlings), to worry, pain or anger. I think that may sum up the emotional ride you have been on. Wouldn't you say?
The good news is that He heals those emotions. "Heals" translates mend by stitching ( I like that because it gives me a picture of a personal God and His personal handiwork and care), to repair thoroughly, make whole and to cure. Although you are brokenhearted, disappointed, wrestling and all of the above- Praise our God who is our Healer through and through... He loves you and is stitching ever so tenderly, stitch by stitch, stitch by stitch and He "binds up" - yes, He wraps firmly, compresses to stop the hurt and damage. Not only that but He saddles, governs and rules this broken heart (binds up)."