I was talking with a girlfriend of mine who went through a breakup this past summer and after discussing how a recent date she had gone on went, she said, “I don’t know why I’m even trying. I’m still so broken. How can I even think about moving on to someone else when I’m not even a whole person yet myself?” 

   I can remember feeling the same way after the ending of one of my more serious relationships. It was like someone had physically taken my heart out of my chest, broken it, and then put it back in someone else’s body. I felt lost and weak, and like I needed to start over again. But somehow I found the courage to do it. Because I may have loved him, but I loved me more. I was worth the work, & the fight. 

    Love can be accompanied by so many other emotions. In one of my favorite quotes from scripture, we are essentially told “love is patient & kind. It carries with it hope, faith & has no pride.” 

     But we as humans are not infallible, & though some think we are the embodiment of love, we are not the act itself, and we do have pride. We can also be angered and envious at times and experience sadness and profound grief in the name of love. 

    I saw an interview with Oprah Winfrey in which she was discussing love & she essentially said, “you have to be careful, because when you ask for love, you have to show how you can love people in spite of their failings. It’s not always the easiest of things.” 

   Another friend is experiencing a different kind of broken heart. She recently lost her mom after a long battle with an illness and she is all but a family of one now. She’s incredible courageous and said she was trying to “heal the broken parts”, by going away on a trip, but discovered some things are not so easily fixed. Instead, she asked for grace and continues her beautiful journey through life into the phase of death and back to the other side and is humbly allowing us as her friends and supporters to go along side her each step of the way with a hand on her back. 

    So what does become of a broken heart? Well the good news is, it will eventually heal. The pieces do start to fit back together and the puzzle becomes complete again. Although it might always have some battle scars from the wounds of what once was and is no more, new love and time will triumphantly heal those wounds. I’ll leave you with a favorite quote of mine from The Wizard of Oz, “Hearts will never be practical, until they can be made unbreakable”. It’s just what “The Good Stuff” is made of.