One of the hardest parts of losing someone is believing they took your chance at that kind of love with them. They didn’t. Your capacity to love that deeply still belongs to you, and there is an entire future ahead of you where it gets to be met by someone capable of staying.
You: Why did you let me get so attached if they weren’t going to stay?
God: Because I knew losing them wouldn’t be the end of your story.
The future you imagined was never theirs to take with them
Jacqueline Whitney
You: It felt like it was.
God: I know. You thought losing them meant losing the future you wanted, too.
You: Didn’t I?
God: No. That’s the part I need you to understand. The love you wanted was never limited to one person. The future you imagined was never theirs to take with them.
You: But I really thought it was going to be them.
God: And one day, you’re going to understand why it couldn’t be.
You: You really think I’Il love someone like that again?
God: I think one day you’ll look back and realize you were grieving a love you thought you’d never find again, while I already knew you hadn’t experienced the best of it yet.
Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.
