Dear Heart Broken,
I don’t know your story in full, but I do know this: you are healing, even if it doesn’t feel like it yet.
Right now, your heart may still ache at the memory of someone who once made it skip a beat. Maybe their absence feels like an echo in the spaces they used to fill. Maybe the thought of them still lingers, like a song that won’t quite leave your mind. I understand. But I want to remind you of something beautiful—pain is not forever.
God is in the business of healing the brokenhearted (Psalm 147:3). What you feel today, you will not feel always. The love that once consumed your thoughts, the person whose name once carried weight in your heart, will one day be nothing more than a whisper of the past—like “waters gone by” (Job 11:16). It will not always be this way.
There is a time for everything (Ecclesiastes 3:1). A time to grieve, and a time to move forward. A time to love, and a time to let go. A time to remember, and a time to forget. And one day, you will look back and realize that the thing you thought you could never get over has lost its grip on you. That name, that face, that feeling—they will not hold power over you anymore.
God is doing a new thing in you (Isaiah 43:18-19). Even now, in ways you may not see, He is working behind the scenes. He is replacing sorrow with joy (Isaiah 61:3), mourning with peace, and emptiness with fullness. He is making a way where you thought there was none.
So take heart, dear one. Keep walking forward. Keep trusting. Keep pressing on (Philippians 3:13-14). One day, you will wake up, and the weight of this heartbreak will be gone. One day, you will see them and feel nothing. And one day, their name will cross your mind—and you will struggle to remember why it ever mattered so much.
Until then, hold fast to the One who never leaves, never forsakes, and never stops writing new chapters for you. The best is still to come.
With grace and hope,
A Fellow Traveler