A Lesson From '11

Just thought I'd take a moment to share with you all what is probably the most valuable lesson I learned in 2011.

Here's the thing about relationships, no one ever really "gets it together". You can ask any married couple, they still fight and struggle. But when you begin to put expectations on your significant other that they, as a person, just cannot meet, that is when it gets dangerous. That is when they have become your idol. It's like this; a lot of people decide that they have found "the one" and want to believe that their romance is like a fairy tale, and that the one they are with is perfect in every way. This is what makes love blind. This is the dangerous moment when you have put a human on a pedestal that God alone belongs on.


Once you begin to realize that that person will never be the perfect person you made them out to be, that's when the time comes to decide whether you should stay or go. You have to step away from looking at who you expect them to be and start looking at who they truly ARE, and if who they are is someone you are willing to live with for the rest of your life and willing to make those compromises with, and when they are willing to do the same for you and not expect more of you than you are capable of, then you stay. If the two of you cannot still love the person you are with when you look at who they really are, then you go.

This is just a shard of the wisdom that I have gleaned in the past year.

Keep the right One on your pedestal, the only One who is enough.

Our God is Enough <3