Ask God to break your heart for what breaks his, and see your perspective totally change.

I once thought my heart had been broken, but in reality, it’d been harden. I didn’t realize it until I’d done just about every trick in the book trying to fix it myself, becoming more selfish, cynical, and hurt all the while. One night, licking the wounds I was so sure came from everyone and everything else in the world finally got old, and I prayed. I didn’t want to focus on my own “heartbreak” anymore, so I said “God break my heart for what breaks yours” and my life was forever changed.

God broke my heart for the people who can’t forgive, and I stopped being one of those people. I stopped holding on to the pain of the past. I stopped the cycle of mistakes I’d fallen into, and let myself move on from it. I stopped thinking people owed me something, and started cleaning the slate just like God had already done for me.

God broke my heart for the girl who never felt good enough, and I stopped being that girl. I stopped letting everyone else dictate how I lived my life. I stopped striving for worldly success and popularity as mere means to cover all my flaws and shortcomings. I stopped believing that others words and opinions defined me, and started listening to who God was telling me I was and would be.

God broke my heart for the people who were afraid of getting hurt, and I stopped shutting everyone out. I stopped trying to save myself by putting conditions and limits on love. I stopped trying to guard my heart so much that it was inaccessible, and started loving, giving he gift God had always given me.

God broke my heart for the people without, and I stopped taking everything for granted. I stopped focusing on all the negative, and found all the good. I stopped thinking of all I didn’t have, and started thanking God for everyone and everything I did.

God broke my heart for the broken-hearted, and I stopped feeling sorry for myself. I stopped thinking only I could possibly be feeling so hurt and only I knew what was best for me. I stopped judging other’s mistakes and realized that broken people make broken decisions. God broke my heart for the broken-hearted, and I started to heal.

It’s never been easy, and I have certainly never been perfect at it, but it’s easily been one of the most important decisions I have ever made, and an important decisions I have to repeatedly make each day- to look at this world and the people in it not from my own bias perspective, but through the lens of the one who created it, and the only one who holds the power to fix it. Ask God to break your heart for what breaks his, and see your perspective totally change.