God is faithful. His promises are true. You can trust Him. He is worthy.
Education always has a cost; time, money, or pain. If you haven’t yet, one day you may have to end a relationship with someone you deeply love.
Love can be blind. For good or ill. Sometimes love blinds us to dangerous characteristics. It prevents us from recognizing warning signs. That kind of love isn’t healthy.
Sometimes we love in spite of faults. Sometimes love blinds us to faults. No one is perfect. Yet they deserve love. Love transcends imperfections, but no relationship gift lasts forever – except with Christ.
My first husband was a violent alcoholic. I am grateful for the experience because it was a hammer size-able enough to move me from the path I was on to the path God wanted for me.
God brings the hard lessons as kindly as possible. But, the more we don’t want to learn, the more difficult the lesson.
And there is always a cost. If not, we wouldn’t learn.
And God couldn’t use us.
In the past two years many of my relationships ended; father, friends, treasured horses, and in the past few days, two more. All passed from mortality to immortality.
We cry out for mercy, comfort, and peace when we can’t raise them out of ourselves. When the challenge is too big or the wound too great, we have an advocate. A loving God.
“Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning,
For in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way in which I should walk,
For I lift up my soul to You.” - Psalm 143:8
Trust is faith. Faith that God can help and faith that He will.
When I called out for help, God provided. He bound my open wounds in the morning. When I called out again in the evening – He healed them.
We aren’t meant to live sterile unchanging lives. Every new and ended relationship changes our world, and hopefully, our focus and perspective.
Heartbreak heals more quickly when others come alongside to support, to love, to encourage, and help direct our appeals to the only One capable of healing worldly trauma, even raw wounds of broken or ended relationships.