Truth

SIGNS FROM GOD COME IN THE MOST AWESOME WAYS LIKE A SONG AT A CONCERT

Lately my heart, soul, chest, eyes have been heavy with the pain life and the world brings. But tonight, the night I knew I needed to let go of everything, Tim Mcllarth says “Everyone right now I need you to just let go of whatever has been on your chest and holding you down” And I’m thinking YES!!! And behind him on the stage is this awesome screen spelling RISE. And he continues to say how tonight at this moment we need to let go of all the crap that’s keeping us down that we haven’t been able to talk about at home, work, or school. And it was just like a YES moment. I felt like God had sent me a sign, the final sign, in letting me know that the pain I was feeling needed to end and I knew that the decision I made was right. Really random right? Never thought I’d get a sign from God at a Rise Against concert but hey guess God works in mysterious ways.

How do you Stop Loving?

How do you Stop Loving?

So an interesting idea came to me today; do you ever stop loving someone because you want to? 

Love is a life changing experience, thus when you love someone (truly love someone) they become apart of your past your history, your story. For the most part when you fall in love with someone it’s a process that you realize is happening (you realize it at SOME level) and so in the end you decide to continue with the person you’re falling for and decide to dive into the dangerous waters of love.

But when you stop loving someone, do you do it because you want to? Is that a possibility? You fall in love because you want to but you don’t stop loving because you want to; you stop loving for one of two reasons (I believe).

1. The person you love has hurt you or is continuously hurting and you must stop loving them because it is disastrous for your health or you would be foolish to hold on therefore you stop loving because it is the best for your well being.
2. You’ve realized that there are obstacles laying between you and the person you love thus you stop loving because you have come to terms with the limitations that are upon your love.

Personally I’ve had the experience of having to stop loving someone; and not because I wanted to stop loving but because it was necessary for my personal health. I saw that if I continued the way I was loving wasn’t good for me and that my love was limited, therefore I consciously decided to stop loving for my well being. 

Having to stop loving someone is a difficult decision to make; a person has to not only recognize they have to go through a process but to complete the process they start. The process of stopping love is just as painful as starting to love is enjoyable.

So I pose this question: when have you had to stop loving someone? how difficult was it? And do you believe that you never stop loving because you want to but because its necessary?