Ahava Love Letter (#64) - “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart”

"How Can You Mend A Broken Heart” “If your heart is broken, you'll find God right there; if you're kicked in the gut, He'll help you catch your breath.”  Psalm 34:18 (from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.) Dear family of friends,

Barry and Robin Gibb recorded the hit song “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart” in 1971. It was also a theme in the Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts film Notting Hill, and later recorded by Al Green. My wife Laurie likes the movie. Maybe not this song, as she wasn’t a Bee Gees fan like I was. That’s fine.

So how do you mend a broken heart? First you have to know what one is before you know how it can be mended. Or will just mending do it?

I would imagine a lot of us had a “crush” on someone in our growing years. Brings back to memory the one in grade school who I liked sharing notes with, until she quit because of the new kid in the classroom, whom she then shared with. Broke my fifth grade heart.

And then in high school, when the girl I really liked in my freshman and sophomore years decided the golfer was better than me, the baseball player, and so she quit answering my daily phone calls. Broke my heart then, for sure.

Or the one in college who gave me back the engagement ring because she didn’t want to be a missionary in Africa also, but rather an English school teacher. Now that really broke my heart.

I can somewhat then begin to understand how you can love someone so much, that you are willing to die for them, should it come to the choice between you and the other one being taken out. Laying down your life for another makes one a hero, or so they say. I believe it.

Personally, I only know one person who gave his life for another, and then lived to tell about it. I met him in a real way when I was in college, when I was needing someone who understood the pain of a broken heart. He did.

He loved in such a way that those who had nothing found they could have all, because of him. Others saw him hug the despicable, lift up the shamed, and show the way to the ones so low to the ground even the dirt didn’t want them around. He knew what a broken heart was. He came to experience it himself, so he could then mend, no rather heal, the broken hearted.

His Hebrew name is Yeshua. We have grown up calling Him Jesus. All who call on His name will know Him as He is – the living God of Israel who heals the broken hearted.

His death, after hanging on the tree, the cross, and then rising from the actual broken heart of death, is what sets Him apart. After having experienced the real broken heart, He is now empowered to give us a new heart. Our brokenness can be healed only through His redemptive and resurrection power. I know of no other who can.

As The Message Bible verse declares, “If your heart is broken, you'll find God right there…” (Psalm 34:18)

May His love and healing be experienced by you today in a real way. He loves you. He really does.

Ahava (love in Hebrew) to my family of friends,

Steve Martin

Founder/President

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Ahava Love Letter #64   “How Do You Mend A Broken Heart”

 Date: In the year of our Lord 2013 (08/01/13 Thursday at 10 pm in Charlotte, NC)

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In Your Building – Guard Against Distractions (#58)

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Your Name (#56)

Lost, But Not Forgotten Friends (#55)