Sometimes we dare, but instead of doing a dream, the dream comes undone.

And we are heartbroken.

It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. . . . it is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever. — Vance Havner

Comfort.

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Thank you to Kimberly Carlile for sharing this quote with me, and to Robin Lin Hodgskin for reminding me to acknowledge broken dreams.