Brokenhearted

 Blessing for the Brokenhearted

Let us agree for now that we will not say that the breaking makes us stronger or that it is better to have this pain than to have done without this love.

Let us promise we will not tell ourselves time will heal the wound when every day our waking opens it anew.

Perhaps for now it can be enough to simply marvel at the mystery of how a heart so broken can go on beating, as if it were made precisely for this-

as if it knows the only cure for love is more of it,

as if it sees the heart's sole remedy for breaking is to love still

as if it trusts that its own persistent pulse is the rhythm of a blessing we cannot begin to fathom but it will save us nonetheless.

Jan Richardson in The Cure for Sorrow