Comments on: Broken Dreams

By: Tammy Skinner

Tammy Skinner — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:40:54 +0000

Thank you so much for this article. I am going through this right now, and this is a huge help to me.

By: Bekah

Bekah — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:49:00 +0000

Thank you so much for writing this! What a beautiful message of hope and healing. I just wanted to say that I absolutely love the song you quoted! My daddy used to sing it to me all the time when I was a little girl. It has also helped me through times of hurting as a young woman.
Blessings!

By: Princess0479

Princess0479 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:20:00 +0000

Hi Chantel this entry was so beautiful, i haven't read YLCF for about a week or two so i have lots of catching up to do =))
but yours was the first article i read, somewhere long ago when i was just a child i had so many dreams i thought i'd be married, with a child, with a college degree, and maybe with a nice job all by the age of 28 or 30..well dear sister, I"m almost 30 will be 30 this April, and even though my dreams didn't happen the way i dreamed, it happened better than i could ever plan, i when i was a child was Jewish, and now i'm a daughter of the KING most high, and that in itself is a better dream i could have ever fathomed...and there have been times that he tried to remold me in the last years, it's with brokenness and with broken relationships with men and friends that he refined me like pure fire..YET it was all worth it in the end.
I was engaged about 1 1/2 years ago, and that relationship came to an abrupt end, and i thought i couldn't go on i couldn't move on, NOW after this time and even after the first few months of sadness and depression i realized that God had his hand in all this, and that without this man i'm better off..I am better being single and God's daughter for now, and if someday God graces me with a Godly wonderful man than that will be in HIS timing and HIS alone...i just gotta be patient and joyful in my waiting..=))
Sorry for the recount of some of my experiences, i just put them down just in case it may help someone, I want to say to the brokenhearted who may be reading this..THAT there is that rainbow at the end of the tunnel, there is a light at the end of the road..Take this Road, GIVE your whole heart to God, hold nothing back from HIM, and he will make you ANEW he will just scoop you up and rebuild your heart like a potter and he will just give you new dreams, new joy, new happiness..and YOU whoever you are YOU will sing again you will even dance again, not right away, but after time passes..BUT first RAISE your hands to God and Praise HIM =))
YOU all can pull through these dark pathways and God is always there carrying you =))

I hope this comforts someone today..=))

thank you thank you so much for this article, Chantel it was very timely for me and very helpful!

Thanks so much!

Blessings & HUGS to all!

To God be all glory!

In Him, Jane.

By: anna

anna — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:27:00 +0000

Thanks so much for putting it all so perfectly. . . I went through shattered dreams and all those broken pieces not long ago. . . God’s grace is always there though. He holds us in the palm of His hand, and none can take us out of it.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:29:00 +0000

Thank you. I’m in the midst of this right now so I was blessed in your sharing your experiences. God bless you, Chantel!

By: nmetzler

nmetzler — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:16:00 +0000

Thank you for sharing this. I wrote a story once called “The glass heart” that was written during my time of being shattered. I wouldn’t trade the joy that I found through that pain for anything; although, I did truly think that I was going to simply die of pain at the time.
God is good!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:40:00 +0000

Thank you! I’m going through this for the second time. I do have to say that the first experience prepared me a little and made it not such a shock this time, although this is one area in which I’m not exactly looking for experience!

Sometimes it feels like absolutely nothing is left, and I think, well, here is the empty vessel that I tried to be all those years. And the only comfort is that finally there is nothing standing between me and God.

By: Clare Marie-Therese Duroc

Clare Marie-Therese Duroc — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you, Chantel.

Since this summer I’ve been going through a rebuilding process, and for the first time I’m beginning to have a glimmering of understanding of the beauty that can be brought out from pain. For the first time I’m beginning to see how the suffering has blessed me, matured me, refined me. For the first time I’ve been able to move just a little past the cry to God: “Help me,” to the words: “Thank You.” I don’t know if I’ll ever fully understand the suffering and why it came until I meet God face to face and He reveals all of His plan, but for the first time I have the faintest glimmering.

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:46:00 +0000

Wow. I am going through this right now. It hurts more than I can say, but He is right there through it all. Thank you for this. It was very, very encouraging!