MY HEART IS BREAKING By Denielle Placide
Does this sound familiar to you? Well, it does for me. In my field of counselling, most of my days are spent listening to the cries of women who repeatedly utter the words, “My heart is breaking” or as one young lady descriptively put it, “My heart is in pieces”. I have not gotten used to these words because truly, there are some situations in life that leave us in a desolate place; a place of emptiness. A place where we are reduced to fragments ― ruptured, torn, fractured, and broken. The book of 2 Samuel 13 records one of the hardest, heart-breaking and gutwrenching accounts of all times. Princess Tamar, a beautiful, graceful, hospitable, and pure-hearted young woman became a victim of abuse, rejection and a shattered heart at the hands of her brother, Amnon. Her life, like that of many people, was evidence of the usual rampage by the devil to destroy lives. It was C.S Lewis who said “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny”. However, for Tamar this did not become a reality as 2 Samuel 13:21 indicates that after her tragic experience, she remained desolate.
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