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Five minute Friday's at the Gypsy Mama

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I used to think that as I got older, some things wouldn't hurt so much.

But then I would have gotten harder as I got older.  But with Jesus the opposite has happened.  My heart breaks for things even more than they used to.

But as I have gotten older, my framework for dealing with the pain, the bitterness, the lies, the abandonment, the rejection, has been transformed.  As I get older, I see things more and more in the light of Jesus.  I first seek where He is in the situation when I remember.  I don't always but, I've come to understand that even, if at first, I don't go to Christ, and the walls build up.

Hardness comes.  The same as the old life.  The same as I learned as a child.

But as I get older, as a Child of God, the moment I turn to Him, His fierceness and justice take what I used put forth in protecting myself.  And the walls come down.  I turn into His tenderness.

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