In a relationship and in life, the behavior of people will
show you:
How high they honor.
How deep they love.
How they handle stress and adversities.
It is in our discernment to decide if we can live with that
kind of behavior or not. However, some
people may not be ready to show you how high the honor or how deep they love
yet. They may need more time to trust,
to feel safe around you. They might not
even be able to show you how they handle stress and adversities if everything
in their life is going well and they have never gone through a difficult
situation yet; this is true for young people and as life goes on they encounter
situations where they need to be courageous, grow and become wiser. I know life has put me in enough hot water to
make me resilient and hopeful because I have seen the hand of God working
through the unfolding of it. I have learned to trust guidance, be patient
with the process and unattached of the outcome, but it took me years to develop
this kind of maturity, so somebody who met me in my teens or twenties and has not
seen me since may still think of me as the person I used to be. But no, life has enough circumstances that
help us mature; there are many opportunities to become a better version of
ourselves for sure. The same goes for
how high we honor and how deep we love.
I used to think both were the same but they are not. Someone can love you deeply but may not be
able to honor that level of love yet because they have never gone that deep
before so they may need to change their ways, believes, habits and that takes
willingness and patience from both parties.
I also learned that there is no wrong way to honor because honoring is
very personal, some people are eloquent about it; some show it in deeds, some
are more private; some are very public about it. Again, our discernment is in knowing when and
how we are being honored as oppose to misjudging someone for not honoring in
the same way we do because we are all different therefore we express love and
honor in very personal ways. Love and
honor are different; Love is shown in levels of trust, not in levels of honor
and trust has to do with feeling safe in the relationship; however here is
where most humans go wrong. I have learned that there is no wrong way for
honoring but there is very wrong ways to love and trust. There was a time when I put all my love,
trust and safety on the hands of one person.
That is fine and dandy until the relationship comes to an end. It sure leaves
you feeling like you could not love or trust again because your safety
was taken away from you, so little by little you grow cold and can sabotage
future relationships, even when you are treated well. A few years ago I was given a revelation
about it. The Universe revealed to me
how at the very young age of two I put my love, trust and safety in my great
grandfather and when he died I felt so insecure that I almost died as well but
it was not time for me to go yet, so wounded I continued and the Universe
showed me how in order to continue I put my love trust and safety on a Kermit
the frog puppet I had, but one day that puppet disappeared and then I found
another person who I decided to put all my love, trust and safety in.
Ironically, that person died as well and that was when I decided to close my
heart from loving anyone. At a very
young age, unconsciously I decided that, so unconsciously I went through life
not truly loving and every time life would find me someone who I thought I
could love that person would have to leave town for some reason but because I
was not as open as when I was younger, it did not affected me much. That was
until I met my first husband. That relationship opened me enough to truly hurt
when the relationship was over. The
wound was as deep as the first one when I was two years old. The Universe revealed the similarities and the
need to heal the root cause of it, AND I DID! After the revelation and seeing all patterns
of behavior since age of two, I got the breakthrough I needed and decided to put my love,
trust and safety IN THE RIGHT PLACE…. ME.