One Day

One day you will look back and tell this story

And it will only take a couple sentences

And they will say “oh that sounds hard.”

You will reply “yes, it was.”

with an ease you never expected

And hold in your heart

All the tears you cried

All the questions you asked

All the fear you faced

You will remember the sleepless nights

The friends you lost

Or the dreams that almost died

A season will be reduced to a few sentences

That everyone else can move on past

And you will stop and realize

That you got thru it

And your tragedy became a story you tell

On the other side of your broken heart,

Your crushed dreams,

Or your bruised ego

It was a chapter 

Not the story

A plot twist

Not a resolution

And the person you were then

Is wholly different 

than the person that came thru it

That is your gift of grace

Your story of redmeption