Love and Life

Love is such an easy subject to talk about. When you turn on the radio, how many songs are about love? Movies? Television? We are surrounded by it.

Especially around Valentines Day. Red hearts, Roses, Chocolate.

Yet that same love can bring a lot of hurt. Why are we so obsessed with love?

Driving back from a Valentines day dinner with a couple of my best friends, I was listening to the radio. They were talking about Love, AGAIN! Even on the Christian station! I really wanted to turn the station, but the caller had an interesting perspective.

She had been hurt so many times, searching and searching for love. God gave her an answer, but not in the form she thought. She and a group of 8 women had turned themselves into a support for each other. They were holding each other up though the hard times. She stated that through the support of this group she's given her persuit of "love" over to God. She now stated that she was genuinely happy single. WOW!

I've heard over and over that we don't know the reasons behind God's plan. Does he want me to be single? Is God going to give me that love?

As I though more about what the woman had said on the radio, I was brought to the spot where I realized that I'm not alone. I had three awesome, single friends that went out together and supported each other on one of the hardest nights of the year for single people. Isn't that great!

So I'm not sure why at this point I am single. I'm not sure of God's plan. I just know that God has given me the support system to survive. How often are we blind to such things? Do we not see them because our focus is elsewhere?

My Pastor said in a sermon one week that as humans we are made to be in relationships. Most people shut down their thinking there, focusing solely on a committed love realtionship. But here is where my Pastor steps out from the ordinary and points out the many different types of relationships. His comment about types of relationships hit home, but not at that moment in church. His comments went right into my head that day, but I was like those others that were focused on "love".

His comments hit home for me tonight. Maybe, just maybe, God wants something different for me. I've never thought of that before. Maybe my relationships are going to be different.

I'm still trudging down my non-path. The snow from yesterday has made the way rather slippery. I've fallen a couple times just today, my mind tells me to just sit and wait for the snow to melt, but God's hand has picked me up, dried my tears and brushed the snow off of me. He's taken a few steps for me to get me a little further through the hard parts before he sets me down again. I can feel him just behind me waiting to catch me if I fall again.

He's always been right there ready to help me. Even in ways I didn't even realize.

I just have to open my eyes and see!

Here is one of my favorite passages from Proverbs 3: 5-6

5Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

I'm letting him direct this path.


Lord,

Tonight I want you to keep directing my path. The way is rough right now, but I know there is a clearing coming up soon. Help me to keep trusting!