All Y'all

Essentially everybody, right? All y'all? That is about how many women went down to the altar at the front of this church this weekend to try and put their hurts at the cross and accept their new kind of normal...Here, let me back up...I went this Friday and Saturday to an Extraordinary Women's conference at a big church in Sterling Heights (2800 women). It was good, a little too pushy in the merchandising arena but I figured as much. The speakers were great. They made me laugh and cry. One speaker in particular, Carol Kent, was asking people who were dealing with a hurt to come forward and leave their hurt at the cross and their were people there to pray with them and over them to help them do this. I was floored when I saw all these women heading to the front! Where all these women really dealing with a hurt like that? Obviously so because it was so moving a moment I thought I was really going to loose it! It was a good thing it was lunch time and we were able to leave the church. But it has still kept me thinking...Do we as women, emotional women, hang on to grudges or hurts because it is easier than letting go? I mean wouldn't we rather have something like pain to comfort us instead of forgiving and people thinking we are a "weaker" woman than someone who might "stand up for themselves"? I am not sure I have the answer for the question because I can only look at the things that I have held onto and sit back and wonder why...is it through this journey of finding out who we are through Christ that we begin to recognize that you have to have hurt in order to know the depths of love? You have to know how low is low, until you see how high is high? It reminds me of the saying that if you truly love someone or something let it go and if it comes back to you then you know it was truly yours?!?!? But wouldn't that hurt like hell????? Of course it would...it does...but you can only experience the love again if you truly let go of the hurt you had to go through to get it back, right? Kinda of reminds me of what God did for us, by giving us His Son to DIE for us...as a father or a mother, could you??? But what started as love, went through a hurt only to be the greatest love of all!!!! Sorry, just rambling and wanted to know what all y'all thought about it! (Thank you Heather for the question at the end blog...love it!)