Courage of Love

As I was falling asleep last night, I thought of the hearts of so many strong women I know. The sheer strength of the love it holds; and more the heartache.

It is remarkable to me how we can walk and breathe and live all the while with a beating broken heart.

And, that beating broken hearts can continue to love and feel joy.

That they dare love, and live on.

The longer we live, the more chance there is for experiencing and witnessing the breaking hearts of our family and friends.

We fear a broken heart.

I sat with that awhile.

Is a broken heart part of the contract of love?

A loving heart becomes a heart of sorrow?

It seems more true the heart grows deeper and knows the preciousness of things.

A heart beats wisdom of the fleetingness of it all.

My heart broke and it loves in a braver way.

Perhaps it is stronger in its brokenness.

And, when you can survive a deep deep sorrow of a broken heart – you gain strength and even carelessness.

You care less about mundane and trivial things and more about what matters.

I am drawn to women who have suffered, survived and now thrive. Who dared to love and live with beating broken hearts. Who are resilient in life. Or perhaps the willingness to live a life of meaning, even with a beating broken heart.

Women whose lives are not defined by their losses; but rather are determined by their ability to live, love and dance with life. To live on.

To live on with colorful lives.

With new adventures.

May the newly broken hearted, breathe in hope by the examples of strong women they know.

Beating broken hearts are able to capture life again – as they love what they love.

Maybe the key to living life in all its forms, is to seek what you love.

What you love doing, who you love being with.

Love perhaps, is the only thing that will heal a beating broken heart.

Or make it a heart you can live with. 

The new heart is different than the loving heart without sorrow.

Yet it is a fuller heart; for it knows the costs.

To all the beating broken hearts – my heart is with yours.

We beat with the courage of love.