The Journey

"What a person desires is unfailing love."  Proverbs 19:22 I write to you as a person who has endured much heartache over the years.  Some came of my own doing...foolishness, rebellion, immaturity, selfishness.  Some heartbreaks, although unwarranted, were actually necessary to bring about change, separation, and eventually growth.  Oh, those growing pains.  Recently, I read somewhere that it's not love that hurts, but rather the loss of love, the rejection, the disappointment, the abandonment, the loneliness that actually hurts.  This is so true.  It is the sense of loss, the void the person left in your life whether the relationship was romantic, parental, or even your very best friend or perhaps a mentor or confidante.  The sorrow is the same, whether the loss came by death, divorce, abandonment, or angry words hurled with carelessness.  Beth Moore writes, "Many of us have been loved by unhealthy people who proved deceptive in other ways.  We were left injured