Longings

Originally published Oct. 25, 2007

Little girls
Girls who become women
Women who become mothers
Mothers who have daughters
Little girls

Generations
Linked
Sometimes broken
Still connected
By pain, if not by shared lives
By longings, if not by experience

Dreams
Dreams that become longings
Longings that become prayers
Prayers that shape reality
Dreams

Little girls who dream
Women, mothers, daughters
Linked
Linked by dreams
Dreams of hope
Prayers of longing

Longings
For love
For hope
For a future
Longings

Words
Words full of longing
Words that break hearts
Words that shape reality
Words

Jesus
Word of hope
Satisfier of the longing heart
God of all hope
For all who long, dream and pray
Jesus

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. – Paul in his letter to the Romans, chapter 15, verse 13.

(c) 2007 Debbie Piper