The Refiner's Fire

Lyrics:

I know the weight you carry,
Every quiet ache.
I’ve felt the heat inside you
That makes you wonder
If you were ever enough.

I know the emptiness
When the ones you love turn away,
When all they see
Is what you lack,
Not what you gave.

Don’t fear the fire.
What you’re walking through
Is shaping you.
You are seen.
You are not alone.
You are not breaking in vain.

I gave everything I had.
I ran myself into the ground.
For love, for family, for us.

Pulled toward a road
I couldn’t follow,
I asked her to stay—
But she was already gone.

You are known.
You are not lost.

I gave until nothing was left.
Our home burned down in silence.
Standing among the ashes,
I gathered the children close.

Their tears, my grief.
Their arms, my warmth.
I whispered—
Why…
Why was our love not enough?

Don’t fear the fire.
What you’re walking through
Is shaping you.
You are seen.
You are not alone.
You are not breaking in vain.

I felt the silence
As the fire moved through my heart,
Leaving a hollow space
Where she used to be—
A place for something new to grow.

You are known.
You are not lost.

The flame, the heat, the hammer blows,
Every tear—each measured, known.
The scars I carry reshaped my heart.
No loss I bore was ever wasted.

Now I see it.
The ash beneath my feet
Is not my ruin—
It is the soil of my becoming.

The fragments of my broken heart
Were shaped to understand
That without the fire,
I could never know
The depth of enduring love.

To love through pain,
To lift the weight,
To find the strength
To carry on.

The fire that burned in me
Has shaped a truer man.

Still learning.
Still healing.
Still standing.

Next time the fire comes,
It will not break me.
I know its heat.
I’ve felt its touch.

I will turn toward its light,
Its healing flame.
The fire within will burn anew—
The life I now choose.