Heartbreak has a way of making you feel like you did something wrong — like if you had loved better, stayed longer, or tried harder, the ending could have been avoided. It replays in your mind like a mistake you cannot stop reviewing. But what if the story heaven saw was completely different from the one you have been telling yourself? What if what felt like losing was actually the beginning of finally coming back to who you are?
From heaven, your heartbreak did not look like failure.
It looked like someone slowly learning that love was never supposed to require this much suffering to sustain it.
Some endings are what return you to yourself.
– Jacqueline Whitney
I know you keep replaying everything. Wondering if you should have stayed longer, tried harder, loved differently. But heaven saw how exhausted your spirit had become trying to hold together something that could no longer love you gently.
You thought you were grieving your future.
But part of what you are grieving is how long you accepted less than what your heart truly needed.
One day, this heartbreak will stop looking like the moment your life fell apart and start looking like the moment you finally stopped abandoning yourself just to keep someone close.
Not every ending is punishment.
Some endings are what return you to yourself.
Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.
