Broken Hearts

My son’s heart is broken and I am helpless. My sweet, gentle son is devastated. Allison, the girl he loves has told him she doesn’t love him. It’s not him, she has truly tried, but she just doesn’t love him. After 3 ½ years, she doesn’t want to marry him. He is so sad and lost. You see, he had planned his whole life around Allison, now she’s gone and he’s lost. He doesn’t know what to do. As his mother, what do I do? How can I help? I just watch and pray. I pray for his heart to be healed, I pray for protection for him, I pray that he will grow from this. He asks me “how will I know when it’s real, because I thought this was real”? I tell him, he will know, You will show him. I don’t think he believes me though. I hurt for him. I want to take him in my arms and hug him and soothe away the pain. He is a man now and doesn’t want that. He says he will be fine. I watch him though, I see his pain, I see his doubt in his self. I want to take his pain away, but pain is part of life, and pain will make him stronger. Pain will make his real love, the one You have picked out for him, that much stronger.

Father God, I know all this in my mind, but he is my son and I want to hold him and rock him and tell him everything will be okay and make it better as I did when he was a child. I can’t, but Father, You can. Heal his heart, ease his pain, remind him that he is Your child. Show him the path You have laid out for him. I miss the way he was. The sparkle he had, the laughter, the jokes, the passion. I miss that. Bring my son back to me. Bring him back, stronger, kinder, gentler, and even more the man You would have him to be. Show him Your power. Show him Your heart. Help him to see that You have had a broken heart as well. Father, most of all show him Your love.