The Words that Fill the Gap

     A Facebook friend who lost her three year old son to cancer not long after we lost our son, recently posted a song that helped her. I shared that on the days when the gap between what my mind and spirit know about God and what my heart feels is bigger, I use words to fill the gap. This poem came from that thought.

 

The Words that Fill the Gap 

 

There are days when the gap

between what my mind knows

and what my heart feels

is bigger than others. 

Some pour tears into the gap,

some art or music. I pour poems.

I swaddle my sorrow with words. 

God calls parents--  

To teach our children wisely.

To mentor them spiritually. 

To care for them wholly. 

To protect them fiercely.

To love them unconditionally, 

but to hold them loosely.

 

Because our children

belong to another Father.

He alone plans the time 

to call them home to heaven.

And we are called to fill the gap 

between trusting minds and troubled hearts

with whatever grace God pours in. 

 

8/27/25