h2>Dating : From the Archived: Trust Love (Part 1)
Trust love.
Trust that this time, it will be fresh and new. That the memories of your painful past will be replaced with laughter, joy and new set of challenges. Trust love — trust it like a child who trusts the care of his mother.
You may be struggling right now. Maybe you just got out of a heartbreak and it’s too painful to talk about trust and forgiveness. You may have let yourself believe that past is past — that you have moved on — but the mere mention of his or her name have brought into shambles the walls you’ve laboured rebuilding. People may have laughed at you because of the silliness of your situation, and how foolish things get. Still, trust love. Trust that it will endure the hardships life is giving you.
‘But how can I trust again when it is painful to do so?’
You may have sworn to yourself that you don’t want to love again to spare your heart from pain. Please don’t close doors. Please don’t lock yourself in. Go out to the streets. Smile at people. Learn to love again.
Easier said than done, you may say.
Indeed, beginnings are always the hardest. The few seconds before taking the plunge is always the scariest. The first cut is the deepest. However it is not the reason to stop loving, to stop fighting, to stop dreaming. There is no burden given that we cannot carry. God’s yoke is easy, His burden is light. Jesus assures us that.
It could be your longest day. The day you wanted to curse the day you were born just like the story of a man in the Bible. Job experienced intense days of seemingly unending misfortunes. He is a blameless and righteous man before God. His faith was put to test when, in a flash, his wealth and family was taken away from him. He got sick with sores and disease. And to make it worse, his own wife urged him to renounce his faith and turn his back to God. But he held on. He know his faith. He know his God. And God restored him.
God will restore you too.
No matter what you’ve been through, His plans are better than yours. It may sometimes take a while, and you may be tired and feel neglected, but God’s providence will see you through.
One day, you will wake up and appreciate how the sunrays peeks through the trees on your backyard. You will see things in a different perspective — in a much clearer light. You will smile to yourself. People will notice your glow, and say that you are living a new life far better than before. Then you’ll realize that you are able to trust love again.
Slowly, you are giving yourself the chance to be happy, because you’ve learned it in the hard way that you deserve to be. ❤
