Risk of Relationships

Here is a quote by C.S. Lewis that reminds me why, despite all past pain, it's still worth the risk of being open to relationships.

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully around with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable."

While rejection and heartbreak are horrible, these results of trying to avoid such things altogether sound worse. And surely aren't part of the full, abundant life God desires us to lead.

No matter what bad experiences you have encountered in your past, don't complicate/delay God's ability to change your situation by living life through your rear-view mirror. Everything in your past happened for a reason! Your past experiences give you a foundation to make wiser life decisions and enhances your recognition of good, 'quality' people who God sends into your life. Every failed relationship puts you one step closer to the one God ordains for you to have! Celebrate the fact that you now have a clearer picture of what you desire in your future mate.

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