{"id":13349,"date":"2025-10-10T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/?p=13349"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:28:17","slug":"heart-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/heart-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two-minute read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pink-White-Watercolor-Heart-Love-Yourself-First-Quote-Facebook-Post.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pink-White-Watercolor-Heart-Love-Yourself-First-Quote-Facebook-Post.png 940w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pink-White-Watercolor-Heart-Love-Yourself-First-Quote-Facebook-Post-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pink-White-Watercolor-Heart-Love-Yourself-First-Quote-Facebook-Post-768x644.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one can understand what lies in someone else\u2019s heart, whether bitterness or joy; we have emotions personal to us. When I lost my nephew, my pain differed from everyone else\u2019s who knew him; we all grieved differently. The day I married Ron, joy overflowed my heart, unique to me after the long wait for my mate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People can have sympathy or celebrate with you, but they don\u2019t entirely understand the workings of your heart. Only God truly knows the feelings you have in the recesses of your soul. Respecting other people\u2019s emotions, whether you agree or disagree, goes a long way towards loving them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five of my family and friends have lost children in various ways. I can\u2019t understand the pain they experience because I don\u2019t have kids. Never once have I told any of them that \u201cI know what you\u2019re going through,\u201d because I have no idea the intense hurt they feel from such a profound loss. By the same token, I can\u2019t comprehend the joy they felt when their children entered the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acting like you know someone else\u2019s experience when you don\u2019t does more harm than good. You can still comfort someone even if you don\u2019t completely understand their pain. People in pain need space to process their emotions; we provide it by coming alongside them and walking with them on their journey. Sometimes talking, sometimes saying nothing, but showing up for them during their crisis helps them move forward from grief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give people space to feel their emotions and process them. Don\u2019t presume you understand; instead, join them on the journey, walking with them through the good and the bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Journal Question:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">How have you processed pain and bitterness before?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">What does a joyful heart mean to you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">How have people misunderstood your feelings before?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Prayer:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Lord, thank You for understanding and knowing the emotions of our hearts. Please give us sensitivity towards others, not presuming we know what they do or don\u2019t feel. Help us love like Jesus always.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">IJNIP. Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-minute read. No one can understand what lies in someone else\u2019s heart, whether bitterness or joy; we have emotions personal to us. When I lost my nephew, my pain differed from everyone else\u2019s who knew him; we all grieved differently. The day I married Ron, joy overflowed my heart, unique to me after the long&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/heart-knowledge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heart Knowledge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13353,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349\/revisions\/13353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}