A popular saying counsels us to love as if we have never been hurt. Easier said than done, especially by the halfway point in life. OK, maybe a bit past half way ...
Elvis sang about the thoughts that run through the minds of those skirting along the edge of love - one foot in, one foot out - and how suspicion will undermine whatever drew you together in the first place destroying hope and heart alike.
“We can’t go on together, with suspicious minds ...
And we can’t build our dreams, on suspicious minds.”
Suspicion destroys what it touches, draws us down dark and lonely roads, and leaves us in the desert wasteland of life, alone and afraid. Much like anger and resentment, it’s a dubious luxury I can ill afford.
I read once that it is better to trust and find out you were wrong, than to live a life of distrust, which undermines the very happiness we seek. In the past, that was a concept I could not comprehend. But today, I can. Trust is earned.
Today, I’m holding out for the dream that God put into my heart: A true love of my very own. I won’t let the past cloud my present, nor dictate my future. God has a wonderful plan—a plan for my welfare and not for my harm. I will hold onto the hope, and the faith, and His promises that I know to be true.
“Oh let our love survive,
I’ll dry the tears from your eyes.
Let’s don’t let a good thing die,
Ah honey, you know that I never lied to you.
I’m loving like there is no tomorrow—stepping all the way in, with all my mind, and all my heart, and all my strength, and letting God show me that most excellent way.
