Every
woman has endured one kind of heartbreak or another. We’ve all had the
unfortunate experience of betrayal, and we’ve grieved over the
difficulty of getting past it. As Christian women, how do we process the
hurts we go through? And where is our God in the midst of them?
In
the book of 2 Samuel, King David’s daughter Tamar suffered an
unspeakable violation at the hands of her brother Amnon, who afterward,
rejected her and cast her away. The Scripture says: “Tamar put ashes on
her head and tore the ornamented robe she was wearing. She put her hand
on her head and went away, weeping aloud as she went” (2 Sam. 13:19,
NIV).