Catching Idle Butterflies

Pray

How do you mend a heart that’s breaking?
How do you tell someone not to despair?
How do you reach across the globe and give a hug?
How can you convince them they’re not alone?

All these questions came to me as I read the blog of a WDC member. She’s thirteen, has written and self-published one novel and is currently trying to traditionally publish her sequel by sending query letters to agents and publishers. She has so much energy, drive and passion for writing, and an intelligence most adults (myself included) would be envious of. She can accomplish anything she sets her mind to and her future is quite bright.

Unfortunately, she doesn’t have the best home life. I don’t know all the details, nor would I divulge them here even if I did know. But it’s bad enough it makes this normally optimistic soul cry herself to sleep many nights, despairing over her life and her future.

All I can do for her is pray:
         for God to mend her broken heart;
         that there’s always reason to hope;
         will send His Spirit to comfort her;
         and show her she is never alone.