When Dearest Dreams Shatter

Many of us have been there. Standing in the middle of an empty room, your shattered hopes strewn across the floor like glass. Each shard tempts you to pick it up, to stare through that fractured sliver of a dream one last time. But you know doing so will only leave your hands bloody and your heart broken. Perhaps you stand amid such debris even now.If so, you are not alone. Scripture is filled with characters who found indomitable happiness amid broken hopes, people who knew deep joy even as the