Release yourself

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”When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.” (Psalm 32:3)

The reason we have the book of Psalms is because David journaled his thoughts and feelings, his pain, his victories, and his confessions. Psalms gives us a view into his heart and shows us how therapeutic it must have been for him to write it down or share his story. 

Having someone to talk to, journaling, or falling on our knees and weeping before our God, are just a few ways of getting out our sorrow. There is no preferable way of releasing what’s on our heart but doing so can make us healthier mentally so that we don’t walk around with pent up anger, frustrations, and bitterness. 

Talking about it, or writing it down is also a way for us to tell on ourselves, and get it out. Bottled up tears and pain can be tortuous. 

“Tears are hopeful things; they are the dewdrops of the morning foretelling the coming day. So is it also a very great consolation to tell your story to a friend: I do not know whether it would not be a comfort to speak it to a little child, even if the child could not understand you. There is something in telling your sorrow and letting it out; otherwise it is like a mountain tarn which has no outlet, into which the rains descend and the torrents rush, and at last the banks are broken and a flood is caused. Let your soul flow forth in words as to your common griefs, it is well for thee. A festering wound is dangerous. Many have lost their reason because they had good reason to tell their sorrows, but had not reason enough to do so. Much talk hath in it much of sin, but a heart full of agony must speak or burst; therefore let it talk on and even repeat itself, for in so doing it will spend itself.” Charles Spurgeon

Sometimes you just need to get it out. Being vulnerable is not a weakness but a strength. 

GiGi❤️

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