Hard

It is hard to watch someone you care about fall away. Fall away from you from God, from who they are. It is hard to see someone you care about make messes in their life that they have to clean up, without help. It is hard to see them make mistakes and hurt themselves and know, that if they don't figure it out on their own then they will never truly get it and therefore keep doing it over and over again. It is hard to see the pain in their life, in their actions and in their deeds and know that there is not a thing you can do but stick it out with them. It is hard not to turn and run the other way because you know that they will do everything in their power to hurt you because you have done nothing but loved them. Why do they do that? Because they have turned into someone they aren't and hate what they do what they say and who they are turning into, so to have someone still love them is like burning coals on their head. It is like a conviction. Convictions are hard. Hard to give, hard to receive, hard to watch, hard to pray for. What are we supposed to do with this kind of hard stuff? Love. Love must be unconditional or it is a manipulation. Unconditional love is the only kind of love that affirms a human being enabling that person to grow. 1Corinthians 13:1-8 talks on love. Sometimes even love is hard...


Ashley Marie