How Do You Measure a Broken Heart?

"Hearts will never be made practical until they are made unbreakable."
~ The Tinman (The Wizard of Oz)

“The heart is the only broken instrument that works.”~ T. E. Kalem

"Once upon a time I was falling in love, but now I'm only falling apart; there’s nothing I can say, a total eclipse of the heart.”~ Bonnie Tyler

“In all things it is better to hope than to despair.”~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Words and hearts should be handled with care:
For words when spoken and hearts when broken
Are the hardest things to repair.”

“The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed;
The thoughts, the dreams, the hopes, the pleasures,
Whose charms were broken if revealed.” ~ Charlotte Bronte

How Do You Measure a Broken Heart?

The echoes in her broken heart
Were from so many voices,
Too many choices
That pulled her to this place.
She never saw herself right here,
But the tempting voices,
The enticing choices
Promised love but only brought disgrace.

How do you accurately measure
The broken heart which has been robbed of treasure?
Suddenly dark
Empty
Alone, but full of echoes
From voices and choices.
How is it done? Where can you start?
How do you measure a broken heart?

The deafening cacophony of questions:
Too many ferocious voices,
So many miserable choices
That dragged her to this place.
“Why me?” “What if?” “Why now?”
“I must fix this,
But how?”
“There is so much I want to erase.”

Unrelenting echoes pummel her heart:
Unloving voices,
Unbelievable choices
That abandoned her to this place.
No one can know her,
This broken-winged songbird
With the vacant-eyed tear stained face.

A voice deep within stands up to the noise,
Stronger than the voices,
Understanding the choices
That brought her to this place.
Jesus cares deeply
And His echo brings love
Mercy, forgiveness:
“I will measure your heart with grace.”

jsi

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18

The LORD heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Psalm 147:3

A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not snuff out.
Psalm 42:3

The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me because He has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from the darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor. Isaiah 61:1,2

Fun Monday

The hostess: Mommie Wizdom http://blog.mommiewizdom.com/

It is finally time for this week's Fun Monday. The assignment:

Your job is to write a story (true or made-up). You must INCLUDE all 10 words.

Theme : Bedtime Stories of Raising a Teenager

The words: Ostrich, goosebumps, magazines, soup, cats, lethargic, noodles, tequila, doorknob, biscuit

Wild card words: prehistoric, Jedi Knight, cactus, periscope, humor

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And so...

(Clearing throat and opening the carefully preserved story book...)

Once there was an ostrich, Fred, and when he turned thirteen,
His attitude and humor changed, you could tell by his magazines.
Fred once adored to linger, read and ruminate a tad
About his vast collection: Doorknobs! Oy, now they were RAD!!
Fred could sit for hours with his volumes prehistoric
And his heart would race with a pace that was truly meteoric!
Knobs of glass, or wood or pearl from the great Cape of Good Hope
Shapes like buttons, boats and balls - one, a periscope!
His prized one - a light blue orb - a present from Auntie Shelia
Which had contained in its center - the worm from a bottle of tequila!
This one had a cat's eye: Fred had got that one last year.
Another's painted "Abandon all hope YE who enter here."

But Fred has turned thirteen you see, and all that we can tell
That this seems to be the year Fred bid his doorknobs farewell.
To keep on collecting them seemed boring and lethargic.
The reasons for the quick distate seems almost biologic.
Fred didn't feel as strongly 'bout these doorknob magazines,
They didn't give him goosebumps - they were suddenly not keen.
"What really took their place?", you ask. The truth was quite surprising:
We noticed that new magazines were coming here since spring.
Cooking magazines -a bunch - from Arizona and Atlanta
Promising the best quick breads, from pumpkin to banana.

So Fred is in the kitchen, reading passionately with delight
Cooking up a storm, wielding a whisk like a Jedi Knight.
He found more recipes for dinner: Delicious garlic brisket,
Cactus soup with noodles, and a scrumptious flaky biscuit.

jsi

Stop by an see these creative writings, on this very Fun Monday!

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13. Swampy14. Min15. Woodlandmama16. Dr. John17. toni