Love Didn't Fail You

Photo by Innoh Khumbuza

How often do we blame love when human beings fail us? 

Do you remember the thoughts and words that came out of you when your ex broke your heart? Do you remember that feeling you felt? Maybe you hated all men / women. Maybe you thought love failed you because you believed in it yet a relationship didn't last. You obviously felt rejected, and lost all hope of ever falling in love again. But wait, was it love that failed you? How many times before did you fall in love? How many times before did you fall in love and swore it won't happen again, but then it did? 

Listen, often times, we fail to recognize that we are our own enemies, we the human race. You played a part in the death of your relationship and so did your ex. You hoped he or she would change, you hoped you would live happily ever after. You envisioned a life more beautiful than a Disney movie. But alas! things didn't turn out the way you expected or hoped. But love never failed you. He / she failed you. If love failed you, then there would be no one else in this world that loves you. So why blame love when you have more people that love you, fight for you and wish you well, compared to that one person who broke your heart? 

Love never failed you. A human being did. Embrace love in whatever form it comes, accept the heartbreak and work on your healing. Love loves to love you.

Xoxo

Mamatembosafari

Faithfully Broken

Lessons learned from my Bible study this week have me feeling some typa way deeeeeep doooown in my belly. See, I realized it’s easy to trust God in and for things that He has already done, but we get hiccups when it comes to trusting God for things He has not yet done in our lives (if this ain’t you - I applaud you, and please be my spiritual mentor for a minute). 

For instance, before you had a JOB you probably wondered if God will give you the job you desired or any job for that matter - then few weeks or months down the line God decides to bless you with a job that you wanted or better than what you wanted. Then you realize it’s all a miracle! Then you start having faith in God in your provision for a job. Then you believe you do not lack faith in God in any part of your life. You fully believe that your faith is intact.

But then you’ve never been seriously ill before and all of a  sudden you get a condition that seems so big that will either cost your life, on top of costing so much money to go through treatment, or one that has no cure! Then you realized even though you have so much trust in God when it comes to getting a job - and you happily shout ‘God did it before, He will do it again’. But can you say that same sentence over your medical condition? And sometimes it may be easy to have faith in God that He will do a miracle for someone else, but when it comes to your issues do you still have the same amount of faith? Or what about being encouraged by others to have faith that God will do a miracle in your life but you know that what they are asking you to trust God for is something you’ve been trusting God for - for many years, then you slowly started losing faith over God’s willingness to do a miracle for you in that area?! 

What a tough pill to swallow. That’s the moment you realize that you have been compartmentalizing God’s willingness (not ability) to bless you and there goes your faith! Interesting how losing faith can happen just like that! 

Again, this may not be you because you are a faithful warrior, however, if you are going through this, don’t worry, you are not alone. As for me though, I would not mind getting a budget a hotel in Dodoma or any type of accommodation in Dodoma and take a week off from my life and just retire from this phase of life and wake up when my faith is 100% restored. Why Dodoma? Well, it’s better to question life about it’s plans for you from a place you first came into the world. In case you were born in a car - take a road trip that’ll sort you out (I joke).