Bitter Butter

"Watch out that no bitterness takes root among you, for as it springs up it causes deep trouble, hurting many in their spiritual lives." Hebrews 12-15

Throughout my christian life I have had experiences that I honestly felt my heart was ripped out of my chest from miscarriage to friends betraying me. In each circumstance I have had to choose whether I was going to get bitter and consume myself with that bitterness or get butter no not better but butter. Butter is when you allow your problem smooth over with God's grace and mercy like butter and let God take over. Butter are the things that you go through and create part of the flavor that makes up who you are.
After I had my decision, one that only I could make, and I knew that once I made that choice, there would be no turning back. Either I am going to trust God to get me through, or I'm going to wallow in bitterness and allow it to hang over my head and eat me alive. In trials you must recognize the fine line between getting bitter or getting butter and decide which way you are going to go. It is not an area that you can "straddle the fence" or change sides. Bitterness will tear you up and do permanent damage unless you make the choice to grab it and take control and let it smooth over with God's grace to help you get through it.
At one point I had to realize that God is still my God no matter what happened, and that what ever wrong that came at me I had to "Forget the former things; do not dwell in the past. See, I (God)am doing a new thing!" Isaiah 43:18-19
It is not easy, but once you decide not to get bitter, it will be your day of new beginnings