“When her heart was broken it
changed her whole life.”
- L. Clark
Living With a Broken Heart
I’ve known two people who have been living with a broken
heart for a long, long time. I’m sure I
know some others as well, but I just don’t know it for sure. One of the most interesting things about my
experience with these two people in particular is that if another person were
to look at them, they would not be able to detect their pain in any way.
A broken heart is not like a thrombosis. There is no formation
or presence of blood clots that may partially or completely block an artery or
vein. But, they do have some things in
common. One thing’s for sure, a broken
heart lies deep beneath the skin and many times you can’t see any signs of it
on the outside.
That’s what I’ve noticed about the two broken hearts I
know. Both of them spend their lives
living as if nothing bad ever happened to them at all. They’re like streams of goodness, giving all
they have to nourish everyone around them.
I was in a meeting once and heard one of them referred to as “an
angel.” It just goes to show that there
are indeed angels living among us.
Perhaps, like my two friends, all angels were once good
people living fine lives when something devastating happened to them. And, it was that overwhelming event that
allowed them to change from being simply human to angelic. All I know is that my two angels have bridged
the crevasse that once ripped through their heart by enlarging it in a magical
way.
When I talked with one of them in great detail about her
experience she said to me, “I was hurt so badly. I was
so embarrassed by what had happened that all I wanted to do was lie hiding in
bed with my covers over my head. But I
had kids to take care of so I made myself get up every day and take care of
them.”
Take care of them, she did!
Now she lives in a new life filled with expanding love as new grand and
great grandchildren offer her unwavering love.
She never could have conceived of this palliative while in the depths of
her misery. All of this intensification
of love has come as a result of her simple choice to get up every day and
completely offer herself to the other, smaller, aching hearts encircling her.
When one faces trials in life there are always two chances
for intensification. One is to choose
increasing the hate and despair that are so readily offered. The other is to choose bridging the gap by
showing increased love to everyone possible.
The first always leads to a growing chasm in the afflicted heart. I once heard a man who made such a choice
referred to as “the world’s only living heart donor!” The second leads to a magical transformation
into an angelic being.
I hope you and I will always choose to completely offer our
goodness to everyone around us no matter what happens to our hearts. If we do, there will be many more angels out
there and I know they’ll be on our side.
What could be more encouraging than that?
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