Sorrow

Maggie

Do you ever have a hard time in your heart, when nothing seems good and true anymore and you’ve lost so much and shed thousands of tears? Do you listen to the songbirds outside and hear the cold shivers in their voices and you want to cry some more for nothing makes sense anymore? Do you wish for youth, for days gone by and then sigh for nothing turned out the way you wanted it to and you cannot imagine going through it all again? You pray but you are not sure your prayers are heard for you are a tiny little part of a very large picture. 

You want to walk in the Garden, but it’s all dull and broken now, simply remnants of yesterday and you are sure you walk alone? 

But you know something, most of us have walked this same path or if not more than likely we will before we leave this earth. 

But we will shed a few more tears and put a smile on our face and cook dinner or go for a walk. 

But thus is life! Tomorrow will be better and we will wonder why we were so desolate and unhappy? 

The truth is we all go through pain and sorrow, love, hate and despair and then we see a bright blue cloud or hear a child’s laughter and suddenly we reach out and take God’s hand in that garden and know He never left us even for a minute. 

I remember when I sat in a tiny chapel at a hospital, knowing my husband was dying and with so many tears I felt I was drowning, I could not even pray. A Bible was open in front of me but I could not read the words. But in those darkest moments we know that God is near and that is what matters. 

After the holidays are over, the table empty and the house silent, know you are not Alone! He walks with you even if the garden is thick with dead weeds of yesterday and the prayers don’t seem to reach His ears, He is with you. Have a lovely afternoon and enjoy the noise of yesterday as you think of the quiet of tomorrow, but remember to hold onto His Hand today.

Source: Journey of a Mountain Woman on Facebook

The pics are of my little Maggie on July 10, 2025. I lost her August 7, 2025.

Maggie, July 10, 2025