I just want to be ok, be ok, be ok
I just want to be ok today
I just want to be ok, be ok, be ok
I just want to be ok today
I just want to feel today, feel today, feel today
I just want to feel something today
I just want to feel today, feel today, feel today
I just want to feel something today
CHORUS
Open me up and you will see
I’m a gallery of broken hearts
I’m beyond repair, let me be
And give me back my broken parts
I just want to know today, know today, know today
I just want to know something today
I just want to know today, know today, know today
Know that maybe I will be ok
CHORUS
Just give me back my pieces
Just give them back to me please
Just give me back my pieces
And let me hold my broken parts
I just want to be ok, be ok, be ok
I just want to be ok today
I just want to be ok, be ok, be ok
I just want to be ok today
I just want to feel today, feel today, feel today
I just want to feel something today
I just want to know today, know today, know today
Know that maybe I will be ok
Know that maybe I will be ok
Know that maybe I will be ok
Pain & Healing
How do we live with personal pain?
Whenever trouble comes our way, let it be an opportunity for joy
and when faith is tested, endurance has a chance to grow; fully developed,
we will be strong in character and ready for anything.
If it didn't hurt, chances are we wouldn't take proper care of it
and it wouldn't heal properly,
thankfully God will use this kind of pain.
It's an impelling force to motivate us
to take proper care of ourselves when we are hurting.
It causes us to look at ourselves
and deal with our personal problems,
resolve our past, and grow in maturity.
One of the worst things we can do with our pain is
to ignore, deny it, or run from it.
We who are going through the same or
similar experiences can be a help in the future.
Satan wants to use it to discourage me and make me bitter.
God comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others.
When they are troubled, we will be able to give them
The same comfort He has given us.
It can make us more sensitive, more compassionate,
more understanding, and more creative.
Beethoven, for instance, composed one of his greatest oratorios after he became deaf.
John Milton wrote one of his greatest poems after he became blind.
Walter Scott wrote "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" after
he was kicked by a horse and confined to his house for many days.
One of my favorite stories is told about Renoir, the famous French painter.
Apparently, when he was older, he suffered greatly from arthritis,
but he kept painting anyhow. On one occasion his friend,
Matisse, said to him, "Renoir, why do you keep painting when you are in so much pain?"
Renoir simply replied, "The pain passes, but the beauty remains."
Those who have given the world the most are often those who have suffered the most.
This is because those who have suffered the most tend to understand life and people the most.
When it comes to our pain, we learn valuable lessons to help ourselves or others because of it.
"Help me to use my hurt and pain to help others Lord. Amen."
Blessed are you when people insult you,
persecute you and falsely say
all kinds of evil against you
because of me.
Rejoice and be glad,
because great is your reward in heaven,
for in the same way they persecuted the prophets
who were before you Matthew 5:11-12