Tuesday's Trust - "The Sharp-Edged Remains of Our Shattered Dreams"

"Sometimes stories don't have happy endings. 

Even love stories. 

Maybe especially love stories." 

Tuesday's Trust 

"The Sharp-Edged 

Remains 

of 

Our Shattered Dreams"

How then shall we "live"?

Our child has died---died---dead---gone!

Does not anyone understand our devastation?

We who love---no crime is it?--our beloved child

Seem left to sit in the ashes of her remains

To awaken every day only to face---

She is not here!

From this sweet earth, she is gone!

All dreams for her seemingly dashed upon the ground!

Why would we not be devastated?

Of course we are!

We are left to flail away in "the sharp-edged remains of our shattered dreams."

What a destiny for parents whose continued love 

for their child is now deemed a "crime."

"Let it go. Move on. Stop the tears."

No way! We will always love our child, 

and therefore we will always miss her, long for her, and always know she is gone!

And with that missing, and longing, and knowing,

we will cry. There will be tears.

Of course there will be tears.

Our love does not stop . . .

while we try to find our place now

amidst these 

"sharp-edged remains of our shattered  dreams."

And where is our LORD in all this?

He is there---amidst the pain---

Amidst her remains---

Sitting with us, weeping with us, loving us, 

comforting us, and drawing our hearts, our faces, 

our lives upward to see Him, to see the 

Hope that He has promised…

"She is with Me ---

I am holding her

even as I am holding you ~

She is safe,

She is loved,

She is with Me…

Longingly awaiting you.

"The love is still there;

Bask in it.

It is deeper, stronger, more understanding.

She sees your pain. She knows your pain.

She too longs for you.

Bask in that love.

Bask in My love.

Bask in your love for one another,

a love that grows deeper every day.

And know, that love will blossom

into fruition that you cannot imagine.

That love is not in vain.

That love is from Me---it is sacred---and it will remain.

Bask in that---even as you are in pain . . ."

Poem- "The Sharp-Edged Remains of Our Shattered Dreams" - Angie Bennett Prince - May 15, 2016

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"Love had turned into loss… but… love had remained.  

…love… Immutable.  

Unbearable but unbreakable."

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"Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain." 

"The Sharp-Edged Remains of Our Shattered Dreams" ---

The title of my poem is from a quote by writer Ken Gire:

"But until the day when we return to that place (Paradise)

or the day when Jesus returns to take us there,

we must live our lives under the rainbow . . .

where the road ahead is not paved with yellow bricks.

Sometimes it has no bricks at all,

only the sharp-edged remains of our shattered dreams."

(highlight, mine),

from his book, 

The Divine Embrace: An invitation to the dance of intimacy with Christ. 

One exhilarating, ennobling, uncertain step at a time.

~Ken Gire, (2003), page 32.

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Quote 1 - pp, 379-380 The Nightingale ~Kristin Hannah

"Sometimes stories don't have happy endings. 

Even love stories. 

Maybe especially love stories."

Quote 2 - p. 368 The Nightingale ~Kristin Hannah

"Love had turned into loss… but… love had remained.   

…love… Immutable.  

Unbearable but unbreakable."

Quote 3 - p. 438, last words of The Nightingale ~Kristin Hannah

"Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain."