{"id":2595,"date":"2025-10-19T18:06:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T22:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspirationallaroundme.org\/index.php\/2025\/10\/19\/summoning-my-help-confessions-from-my-hurt\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T18:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T22:06:53","slug":"summoning-my-help-confessions-from-my-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inspirationallaroundme.org\/index.php\/2025\/10\/19\/summoning-my-help-confessions-from-my-hurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Summoning my Help: confessions from my hurt."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">And I said, \u201cMy strength and my hope have perished from the Lord.\u201d <br \/>Remember my affliction and roaming, the wormwood and the gall.<br \/>My soul still remembers and sinks within me. This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope. <br \/>Through the Lord\u2019s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.<br \/>\u201cThe Lord is my portion,\u201d says my soul, \u201cTherefore I hope in Him!\u201d<br \/>The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.<br \/>it is good that one should hope and wait quietly.<br \/>For the salvation of the Lord( it is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth.<br \/>Let him sit alone and keep silent, because God has laid it on him; <br \/>Let him put his mouth in the dust- there may yet be hope.<br \/>Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him, and be full of reproach. <br \/>For the Lord will not cast off forever, though He cause grief. <br \/>Yet He will show compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.<br \/>For He does not afflict willingly, nor grove the children of men. <br \/>Lamentations 3:18-33<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>As I sit alone in a quiet house for only a few moments before the sound of basketballs dripping, bickering amongst brothers, dogs barking, or the senseless banter on 2K26 I\u2019m looking at all of the journal entries I\u2019ve started and for one reason or another I didn\u2019t get to finish or post when it was intended. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I am in a completely different head space and as I enter into a season of what seems like personal isolation, separation, learning to forgive myself, and healing\u2026I don\u2019t want this chapter to be left without clearing out \u201cmy inventory of what God placed on my heart.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps these Scripture verses will serve as a source of inspiration to you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe Lord is my portion,\u201d says my soul. \u201cTherefore I hope in Him!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>                                                        Lamentations 3:24<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the link below to listen to one of the songs I listen to quite often that helps center my mind and refocus on where my Help comes from. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;My Help&quot; - Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, with lyrics\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DWydssGbUBc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>Closing Challenge Verse: Lamentations 3:40-41<br \/><br \/>Let us search out and examine our ways and turn to the Lord;<br \/>Let us lift our hearts and hands to God in Heaven. <\/strong><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I said, \u201cMy strength and my hope have perished from the Lord.\u201d Remember my affliction and roaming, the wormwood and the gall.My soul still remembers and sinks within me. This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/inspirationallaroundme.org\/index.php\/2025\/10\/19\/summoning-my-help-confessions-from-my-hurt\/\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summoning my Help: confessions from my hurt.<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":"Summoning my Help: confessions from my hurt.","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":[11],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listening-to-god","tag-encouragement","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2411,"url":"https:\/\/inspirationallaroundme.org\/index.php\/2023\/12\/05\/words-of-encouragement-for-the-hopeless-one\/","url_meta":{"origin":2595,"position":0},"title":"Words of encouragement for the hopeless one.","author":"Whitnee","date":"December 5, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I got up shortly after 2am to start my day as I have for the past several weeks. 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