Hearts don’t break around here…

This may be a little controversial amongst Holiness people, but HB and I like to send each other love songs. We have both gone through the process of letting worldly music go and allowing God to sanctify that area of our lives. I can now, as a married woman, listen to things I would not have been able to as a single girl in my 20’s.

That being said, I used to have a song on my playlist which echoed this post’s title words – hearts don’t break around here. But when HB betrayed me, I deleted that song. He was someone whom I thought would never break my heart. And he had.

But then one day I was listening to another love song, in which the artist swears to his love, “I won’t break your heart.” It’s a beautiful sentiment – a beautiful thing to have a relationship in which neither party breaks the other’s heart. And yet… and yet, how realistic is that? Even in little ways of not meaning to, those we love the most can break us the most. And I think I am learning that being able to be broken by the one we love most of all humans, and yet also being able to allow God to mend and restore your broken heart – maybe this is even more beautiful than never being broken at all.

I will now never know what it is like to go through life without having my husband break my heart. But there are people out there blissfully walking along life’s way without brokenness who may never know the depths of love that can spring up within the heart that once was broken.

Some say that Jesus literally died of a broken heart. But the love He had for those who broke Him was immeasurable. I can never understand the love God has for us, but if still choosing love after brokenness gives me even a taste of Christ’s love, perhaps it was worth it all after all.

“This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.” -John 15:12