Bridges....

Today's quote

Praise the bridge that carried you over.
George Colman


Why a bridge? Let me try to explain..... it is difficult to explain in straight talk. I tend to speak metaphoricly when it comes to matters of the heart. But I feel like a 'bridge' is the best way to get across some of those hurts we all face at one time or another. We cannot always totally reverse a wrong that has been done to us or that we have done to others, but we can usually bridge it. In the song 'Fortress Around Your Heart', the artist Sting sings:

And if I built this fortress around your heart
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire

We all have had moments where we have felt overwhelmed in our sorrows over what we perceive to be a 'chasm' in our own hearts. These events may be truely devastating to us although someone else may view our reaction as self pity. We need to learn how to bridge the gaps even if we cannot 'fill the chasms'. Sometimes the bridges can be simple footpaths over a babbling brook and sometimes we need to span the mighty Mississippi. My hope is that the things I write here may help you to build your own bridges. No one else can build them for you.