Flowers Do Grow In The Rain

You ask why life has so many tears

why life's road is always rough?...

but with each day and every year

we learn another lesson about love.

Sometimes the path we choose

can seem to be too hard...

but how much more can we loose

with just one more broken heart?

A finished diamond ring

is not beautiful all my itself...

it cannot do a thing

without the polish cutter's help.

Going up mountains and over hills

we are running into walls...

we cannot learn the growing skill

until we learn to fall.

A heart like a flower grows

and reaches for the stars...

but our eyes do not always know

the necessity of lifes scars.

Some flowers along the beaten path

are hidden among the weeds...

the rain showers they must have

are what help the many planted seeds.

Sometimes it takes hitting a valley low

to make us finally look up...

at times only a heartache's blow

can make us feel true love.

You ask why there is so much sorrow

why does life give us so much pain?...

but too much sunshine provides no rainbow,

for flowers do grow in the rain.

One Shot Wednesday

Also sharing with Imperfect Prose with lovely Emily at In The Hush of The Moon

A Certain Suffering

"Sometimes my greatest sufferings in life have been like wearing stiletto heels, on the outside things look sharp and smooth, but on the inside my bunnions are crying for relief!"

Shiny and elegant is a stiletto heel, but frankly I don't like the way they feel.   I will take tennis shoes any day,  so I can move forward in comfort all the way.

I am no stranger to heartache, no one is, but I have found as time goes by, that holding on to the worries and struggles trying to fix them on my own only turns into creating more worries.  It is only when I let go, and rely on God's support, that I am able to find true comfort, and release.  Sometimes you just have to take the stiletto heels off, and take comfort in the humble simplicity of life that is all we need:

The grace of God.

Poets United Think Tank Prompt #11 Pain