Comments on: At the End of Broken Dreams, an Open Door https://anitamathias.com/2015/03/22/at-the-end-of-broken-dreams-an-open-door/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Sat, 26 Mar 2016 21:56:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2015/03/22/at-the-end-of-broken-dreams-an-open-door/#comment-63121 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:12:15 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64155#comment-63121 In reply to Hunter.

That’s great. Thanks, Hunter.

]]> By: Hunter https://anitamathias.com/2015/03/22/at-the-end-of-broken-dreams-an-open-door/#comment-63116 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:31:26 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64155#comment-63116 I’m where you were, Thanx. Maybe I won’t feel I’m in a bomb shelter anymore. I wrote an Easter poem or two.

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2015/03/22/at-the-end-of-broken-dreams-an-open-door/#comment-63114 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 21:49:29 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64155#comment-63114 In reply to John.

John, there’s no Is. 32:21 at least in Bible Gateway. What verse were you thinking of? “I will make their Valley of Achor a door of hope?” I’ve come close to shipwreck emotionally, often and stretched over a long period, though not in my external circumstances. Well, so far 🙂

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2015/03/22/at-the-end-of-broken-dreams-an-open-door/#comment-63113 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 21:40:28 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64155#comment-63113 In reply to Andy.

Your poem is lovely. And good. Thank you for sharing it, Andy!
“And nothing is wasted in heaven’s jurisprudence.” I truly believe that. Nothing in nature is wasted, it just re-appears as something else. Unharvested apples compost the soil. I hope it’s the same with us. It’s melancholy thinking of unfulfilled dreams, but of course, they shaped our lives, brought us adventures, and made us the people we now are.
(Hopefully, my blog will rebound and become bouncy again 🙂

]]> By: Andy https://anitamathias.com/2015/03/22/at-the-end-of-broken-dreams-an-open-door/#comment-63112 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 21:11:04 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64155#comment-63112 Anita, I actually wrote a poem after reading ‘Goodbye to Everest’, I was so inspired. I don’t consider myself a gifted poet or anything and I’m not trying to compete with you but, after reading today’s blog, I think it is still relevant. May I share it with you.

SOME HOPE

Some prayers that I lifted
Some dreams that I dreamed
Some hopes that I held to were good things it seemed
Some places I reached for
Ambition walked tall
Climbed up to the clouds and in youth had it all

I looked and I watched
As others flew high
Their lives like kites out of reach in the sky
Could this one day be me
My life turned around
Or forever condemned to stay on the ground?

Those hopes that once burned
May be nothing but ash
Those dreams that I journaled put out with the trash
And those prayers that I sent up
Long lost their aroma
Scorched into smoke by the sun’s fierce corona

My canonical prayers
Were they far too simplistic?
My dreams in their sweetness so unrealistic?
And what of the future?
I like to keep hoping
My reason for living, my wellspring for coping

Prayers compost the earth from which actions see light
And dreams prime the crosshairs of the sharpshooter’s sight
Faith that is tested produces endurance
And nothing is wasted in heaven’s jurisprudence

]]> By: John https://anitamathias.com/2015/03/22/at-the-end-of-broken-dreams-an-open-door/#comment-63111 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:34:54 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64155#comment-63111 Open doors? Oh, yes. Countless times. The truth of Is 32:21 has for me been accompanied by a backdrop of degradation and failure sometimes close to complete shipwreck. When the guttermost are redeemed to the uttermost, the heart is trained to listen for the voice behind; the valley of Achor (dejected) becomes Petah Tikvah – the door of hope.

]]> By: » At the End of Broken Dreams, an Open Door https://anitamathias.com/2015/03/22/at-the-end-of-broken-dreams-an-open-door/#comment-63108 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 13:23:55 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64155#comment-63108 […] About 20 years ago, in Williamsburg, Virginia, we used to sing this in church, “At the end of broken …read more       […]

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