Crushed And Broken-Hearted Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore

I created expectations dreaming,
that they would be fulfilled
if I made the right choices.
But I woke up to the reality
to find, it didn't match my hopes.


My beliefs about how my life
would turn out were pleasant but false,
being forced to recognize,
my clinging was to a pretense.

We often build pretenses
about how our lives
should pleasantly appear.

We think, ideas we imagine
should govern our lives.

But God has His own
plans for our lives.
Our pretenses often
lack the foundation
of what God wills.


We long for a path free
from pain and barriers,
but God doesn't always
follow the easy trail.

When we are crushed
and brokenhearted
even from our own pretenses
we know that the brokenness
doesn't separate us from God.
It draws us nearer to God.

„The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.… The Lord redeems the soul of His servants, and none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned" (Holy Bible, Psalm 34: 18-22) .
Graphic: the Lord is close to the broken-hearted. From Genovamaaa's collections in Photobucket)