Breaking

What do you do when your heart is breaking but you have to keep the pain to yourself? Inside, your world is crumbling but, on the outside, you have to keep a smile pasted onto your lips. In times like these, it helps to have a God to speak to and while the response is not one that can be heard by human ears, the answer often comes when we need it the most.

Without my faith, I would drown. Without the strength I get from God, I would not be able to see the flowers in the mud or the possibilities that lay past a cloudy day. And no matter what life throws at me - the good, the bad, the worst - I know that I can get through it a better person, despite the scars or broken heart.

As I grow older and, hopefully, wiser, I learn the truth in the words first uttered by Friedrich Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, only makes me stronger. And so I remain smiling despite my breaking heart because I know that while it may be breaking, it won't stay broken.