Love and Heartbreak

Today I want to do something different.  No video or pictures.  I have a good friend that posted this on Facebook last night.  With his permission I am going to share it hear.  Please read this.


Ok, this one is for my kids, because I know that they read my posts, especially after my deep, sentimental story about the Christmas tree last year. Now they tease me about my random "wisdom moments" that don't always come out well when I try to talk...sometimes I'm better at writing them. So, here goes...I hope you will always have the courage to open your heart and fall in love some day. Why courage? Because courage is what you will need to get you through in case your heart gets broken, and since we're human that's bound to happen. Even if you marry your one an only first love for a lifetime, it will take courage to have your heart broken when you hold your loved for the last time as they take their final breaths. And if you are the one of you two to pass on first, you won't escape the heart break,because you'll feel the pain of seeing your grieving loved one left behind. But heartbreak is good, and is the measure of your love. How? ...the more painful the grief, the more intense the love you shared. The grief and heartbreak lets you know that you were really in love, and not just dreaming it all (though I hope you get to feel that dreamy side for a long, long time.) And it will take courage to open your heart up and love again, but it will be worth it. As you pray to God to ease the pain, I hope you also thank God for the amazing love, lessons, and memories you shared, that ultimately will prepare you for an eternity of experiencing God's love in an even more perfect way...which trust me is hard to imagine sometimes when you're in love. And bless the person that broke your heart, because in the big picture, they also put their heart on the line, and you can't learn to love without the loving heart of another.
Oh, and there is one final heartbreak, but it's totally worth it. When your heart is finally united to God's heart...it's going to explode, even if your heart was well prepared with lots of love on earth...it's going to break one last time, but then it will be healed, forever.

by Rob Patton