Your pain is embedded so deep that your cries to the Lord can’t even be heard by onlookers.

 

Your voice has been stifled and the anguish has kept you silent to the outside world.

 

Yet, God has heard your cry, “Hannah.”

 

1 Samuel 1: 10

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the Lord and wept in anguish.

 

Some of the most powerful prayers are those only spoken in the heart. Those that sail on a bed of tears that have innately created a river of wanting.

 

With every teardrop seems to be a sound that captures the attention of the ONE on the throne, and He is moved by compassion.

 

While your soul is embittered, a beautiful thing is happening beyond what you can naturally see.

 

The Holy Ghost has been praying on your behalf with His own groanings.

Every pained sound of your heart He has translated and understands fully.

 

Released in every one of those tear-stained moans has been a call to the helper, the comforter, the counselor.

 

Nearer and nearer He has drawn to you because His heart is always listening for a cry.

 

A broken heart is never despised, and He has an inability to refrain from running to such a wounded heart.

 

Whose womb seems to be barren today? What, dear one, has been lost to you? What has caused such a deep anguish that the waves have seemed to overwhelm your life?

 

Grief has a way of making you look drunk, doesn’t it? You try to stand again and the next wave barrels over you stronger than the last and your legs can not seem to stand in strength.

 

Jesus sees.

Jesus knows.

 

Whatever seems lost. Whatever seems barren. Whatever seems unable to give birth…there is an “expected end.”

 

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

 

Can you trust the Lord in that which you can not yet see? Can you believe in your dire circumstance that His plan for you is for good and not evil? Can you believe that He set in motion before you were formed in the womb an “expected end?”

 

We can see a glimpse of this expected end in the below scriptures:

 

Psalm 126: 5-6

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

 

Psalm 30:11

You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing. You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy…

 

Chin up, sorrowing heart, His plan is still in place for your sweet life. He is never far from you.

 

May your heart cry out as much as you need. May your pain spill over with tears as a waterfall beckoning the gaze of the Almighty.

 

For never once have they gone unseen or unheard by Him.