Sunday, November 22, 2009


this is hard today.

it hasn't been everyday, but today, yes.
it smells like you in here.

and I am wondering where he is, and who he is speaking with
and if he is thinking of me. [just being honest]
these kinds of things, do they happen with breakups?

and yet God is breathing into the empty spots
the loneliness I felt the other night sitting on the couch with my
dumb love story novel

(I need a new one by the way)

and Friday when I spent the night holding a lil brown baby
when usually I'd be on a date

he was my best friend the last two years...
so that is why these tears, you know? I'm grieving.

and sometimes I am excited to see what God has for us or for
the other us

and I don't really have any choice but to just be
with my hands up
open
and hope and pray that God would move in hearts (he will)
and take things out of hearts that are not of him
and lay his delights on hearts

and then I guess I'll know the next step.

and I am trusting God, and okay if he moves on or likes a
different pretty girl ( i will want to punch her in the face)
and I might hate it,
but, God'd move me on too
and for the first time I know I know I know
it's all going to be ok.

but, i miss him. and that is not wrong.

6 comments:

Brooke Collier said...

yes. oh that hardness that comes and goes in waves, and some of the waves feel too much to bear. you wonder if they'll knock you over and suck you under. it is normal.
love your guts.

April said...

I love you chels so much

Thursday said...

I love reading your blog, and Brooke's, because they make me want to be more and more in love with God, too (and isn't it great how us all loving God doesn't mean any of us wants to punch the other in the face? I'm looking forward to heaven when that will be true all around). And I love how you've both encouraged me in this crazy notion that God doesn't want us to pretend we don't want things, or pretend we're not hurting, but instead wants us to lean hard into Him in the wanting and hurting and trust that He will indeed move us in whatever directions He sees fit, and that it will be good because He is good.

Anyway, thank you.

Lindsey Joy said...

i love how you say things how they are.....i get scared to do it....but i LOVE that you do!

Steph said...

oh chelsea your heart is so beautiful!
thank you for lovin' on our lil brown baby!

peregrinity said...

im sorry. i decided not to email you back. im sorry. im sorry you hurt. im sorry.