Defeat

Tears stream fluidly

Hurt, pain, grief, anguish, defeat

Where has the hope gone?

I wish you could see my heart break for you. I wish you understood that you don't need to live in each lie. I pray that one day you'll see your beauty in the ashes. I pray that God will bring you from defeat and give you hope. Because that hope that is from the Lord is abundant and rich. 

Proverbs 23:18

There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. 

Romans 15:13

May the God of hope fill you with all the joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. 

I don't say this for you to feel bad, I don't say this for sympathy. I merely want to express to you that you are loved, you are cared for, you are valued, you are wanted, you are beautiful. I want to encourage you, to uplift your spirits. But I know it's not me that is capable of that. For now, I watch, I wait, I pray. I pray fervently for you, my friend. 

Don't accept defeat.

Don't believe the lies.

Don't give in. 

Stand up.

Take courage. 

He is with you. 

He is for you. 

He will never, ever be against you. 

If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, be gave him up for us all - how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:31b-32, 37-39

My words don't come close to what I want to communicate to you. 

But I feel so deeply for you. 

My heart aches for your pain. 

I want to take it from you, and take it upon myself. 

Then I could feel like I'm helping. 

For now, I watch, I wait, I pray. 

For the hope that one day, you'll see hope once again. 

I love you.