Does Your Heart Cry Out With Barrenness?

What does it mean to be barren?
     It's a longing unfulfilled,
     It's gifts withheld,
     It's sadness, emptiness,
     It's laughter that isn't heard,
     It's a heavy heart.
Does your heart cry out with barrenness?

My God says something intriguing,
     "Tell the barren woman to sing aloud,
       Break into cries of joy,
       Enlarge the limits of her home,
       Spread wide the curtains of her tent,
       Let out its ropes to the full!"

Oh God,
You definitely have increase in mind.
How small my thoughts, how narrow my vision.
You have abundance in store, more than I can imagine.
This loss You desire to turn into gain,
Such increase, such favor, such goodness.

"Something new, something great," your Husband , your Maker whispers,
   "I want to break you out of your confines,
     I have dreams for you to possess,
     I have new opportunities for you to pour out your love.
     The time of shame, the time of sorrow, the time of mourning is over."

He speaks to those once deserted,
                               once rejected,
                               once heart-broken.
"You are My bride, My love for you is immovable.
  I have a peace for you, a completeness to be fathomed which cannot be stolen.
  I am your Husband, your Maker,
  All you have gone through has been for purpose, but now restoration is my plan for you.
  Your time of sorrow, sadness, and brokenness has produced a beauty in you; a beauty of endurance,
      wisdom and compassion. This beauty is forming a firm foundation, walls of strength with precious
       jewels.
Keep looking to Me, your Husband, and abide in My righteousness and delight in you.
Rejection, brokenness, and the lies of the enemy will not be able to penetrate these walls, or the new
      creation that you have become."

"This restoration, this beautiful building will welcome with anticipation and expectation, the new
      enlargement, the new thing, the abundance that I have planed for you."

Comforted, restored, and loved by the High God of heaven!!!

Meditation from Isaiah 54