A Hole in My Heart

These past several months I was privileged to be grandma to a beautiful foster child that was taken in by my daughter’s family. God allowed that child to be taken away from us yesterday. The hurt is great, but God is faithful. I’m sharing with you what He shared with me as the healing process begins. My prayer is that maybe there is one of you that God has brought to my blog that will also find comfort and encouragement. He allows the hard times so that we may be able to comfort others through the comfort that we receive.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 “Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.”


There’s a hole in my heart exactly the size of a precious baby boy.
God shared him with us for a little while to teach us about His joy.

We hoped we would get to keep him, but that wasn’t part of God’s plan.
And now He wants us to trust Him as we yield to the laws of the land.

Lord, I just didn’t know it would hurt so much to give him back to You.
But I’m trying to stay on Your promises and let You carry me through.

I know your love is working for good though we can’t understand now.
Increase our faith, Lord, give us Your strength until You share with us how.

I thank you for tears to express my grief and that help me better to see
The extent of Your love as You gave Your Son to die for me on the tree.

I know you will heal this hole in my heart if I yield to You as clay,
But I need Your strength with each step that I take to make it through the day.

I pray, dear Lord, that others will see Your peace reflected in me.
May they see joy because of the hope I claim as I rest in Thee.