Whitney Houston, probably my favorite singer of all time, bellowed out the song Where Do Broken Hearts Go, back in the 1988, her voice melted the over the track as she sang the chorus..
“Where do broken hearts go
Can they find their way home
Back to the open arms
Of a love that's waiting there
And if somebody loves you
Won't they always love you
I look in your eyes
And I know that you still care, for me”
Can they find their way home
Back to the open arms
Of a love that's waiting there
And if somebody loves you
Won't they always love you
I look in your eyes
And I know that you still care, for me”
So my question is, where do broken hearts go? What do you do when you find yourself with a broken heart?
Heart break is defined by Dictionary.com as – (n.) great sorrow, grief or anguish. Webster’s dictionary defines heart break as – (n.) crushing sorrow or grief. Regardless to the exacting definition, when your heart is broken it extracts an enumerable toll on your physical, emotional and spiritual being.
We find it easy perhaps to offer remedy to the heartbroken spouse who discovers his wife has been unfaithful. We often find a quick formula to cheer up the girlfriend who finds out her “two timing” boyfriend was spreading his wild oats all over everyone else’s field. We take them out of their house/apartment, make them socialize with other people, insist they turn off the sad “heart break” music and blow out the candles. When we visit them we open the curtains to let the rays of natural light come in, all in the belief that a little sunlight, some good food and a new relationship is all they need to get back on the road to relationship bliss. We may even encourage them to “shake it off” and “get back in the game.” Sometimes our sage advice includes saying, “There are other fish in the sea” or “She/he wasn’t a good fit for you anyway.” And actually this advice and formula often works.
But what do we say to the broken hearted person who has been disappointed by God?
GASP!!!!!!!!!!
Did he really write that? Ummm yeah he did?
What do you say to the person who feels as though they have been disappointed, let down, struck with grief and anguish to the point of soul-felt-pain, by God?
What witty words, pithy phrases or sanctifying scriptures can be offered to the person who’s soul has been crushed, who’s spirit has been silenced, who’s faith has evaporated because she/he believe so wholly (not holy) that God would provide what he said he would, only to feel that they have been humiliated and abandoned by the Lord?
Where does this broken heart go? Can this heart find its way home? Can this heart go back to the open arms of a love that’s waiting for them?
When heart break moves beyond just finding another lover, how should we respond? When a broken heart comes from too much belief and not enough results, what do you say to that person? If you feel you’ve done all you can do, and believed more than you ever thought possible to believe, only to see the same circumstances standing boldly in front of you what do you do?
Where do broken hearts go when?
It can’t find another job and it desperately needs a new one It can’t find the faith of a mustard seed to believe that anything good is ever going to happen It doesn’t understand why it’s allowed to sustain devastating blow, after blow, with no rest It only had one more round of fight in it, only to realize that there are more opponents lined up to fight It sees too much month at the end of the money It realizes that the parents who birth it, don’t care enough about it to help pay for a future that it has studied and fought for since beginning elementary school It realizes that the father it longed for its entire life is never going to come home/come back or come around It realizes that life is just hard and bad things often happen to good people It sits and watches the evil doers and selfish people get promoted and rewarded while the goodly and Godly get over looked It moves away from home on faith to follow a dream only to find out, some dreams are not deferred but denied It concludes that the prayers, tithe, sacrifices, vulnerability and principles it has sowed have yielded nothingWhere do broken hearts go? Can they find their way home?
I don’t know yet. Perhaps I’ll let you know if I find out.
That’s what I think.
Now what’s your reaction?
