I first heard the Broken Dreams poem during Rev. Dr. Lorraine Cohen and Rev. Anita Pathik Law’s Aligning with Destiny course (which I highly recommend by the way) and loved it immediately and hope you do too:
Broken Dreams
As children bring their broken toys
With tears for us to mend
I brought my broken dreams to God
Because He was my friend
But then instead of leaving Him
In peace to work alone
I hung around and tried to help
In ways that were my own
At last I snatched them back and cried
”How could You be so slow?”
”My child” He said, “What could I do?
You never did let go?”
By Robert J. Burdette
I think we can all relate to that, I know I can….
The sleep deprivation from having a baby is brutal. It’s getting better but I am generally operating from a slightly tired place most of the time. My son is nearly 9 months old and until recently needed a feed in the middle of the night, every night.
My partner and I have been wondering how to get him to sleep through the night. I have looked it up on Google, spoke to people about it, read books on it but alas each night he wakes for his 3am feed!
Until about a couple of weeks ago….
One night I was so tired I wasn’t even thinking straight. When he woke I’m not even sure what I did because I was half asleep but what I didn’t do was feed him. I don’t even know why, it wasn’t a conscious decision I made. I just rubbed his back and he fell back to sleep.
I got into bed assuming he would wake again soon but he didn’t and we all woke up in the morning, rested, refreshed and a little confused. What happened? How come he slept through the night? Was it a fluke?
It’s been 2 weeks now and definitely not a fluke!
That night everything changed because I was so tired I couldn’t think; since I wasn’t thinking I was well and truly out of the way.
Getting Phoenix to sleep through the night was something I wanted so much, so I was holding on believing that holding on would take me there. I believed that if I let go of controlling the situation all hell would break loose. I couldn’t have been more wrong, holding on is attachment; attachment is a fear of letting go in case it doesn’t happen which isn’t surrendering to something greater than yourself but trying to handle it all by yourself.
Your ability to let go is in direct proportion to the trust you have in the Universe. You may say you believe in a loving, supportive Universe but what you really believe is what comes across through your actions. Holding on tightly is not an action that is aligned with trusting in the flow BUT IT IS an opportunity to deepen your trust and commit to the unfolding of the Divine plan.
What do you really, really want? How are you holding on and why?
What if you were to let go of the attachment, trust and commit to the unfolding of the realisation of this desire?
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