Sometimes Your Heart Doesn't Get Broken But Educated

Sometimes when people walk away what they leave us with isn't a 'broken' heart but an 'educated' heart.

After all said and done, after the tears have gone, you realize they came to educate you.

They came to hold your hand through a phase but now their part in your story is over.

They came to cheer and spur you on to greater, better and bigger than you imagined.

They came to show you anything is possible if you believe.

They came to remind you of all that you can and should be.

They came to show you a glimpse of heaven, a foretaste of what is to come if you dare to give your heart again.

They came for you but were not meant for you instead they came to prepare you for the kind of love you envisaged and prayed for.

And when you think about their time in your life you have to do it with gratitude for the opportunity you had to grow.

On the days you try to forget them, you have to be patient as you remind yourself that some things take time and that soon you will wake up and they will not be the first thing on your mind.

Someday you will hear a joke and they will not be the one you want to share it with.

Someday you will look in the eyes of the one whose actions match their words and who wouldn't put anything else in the world above you and it wouldn't be theirs.

Someday they will become just a memory, a memory that makes you shrug because your educated heart is stronger and grateful.

Someday it will become clear that they came to educate your heart about goodness, beauty, strength, growth, courage, love...life!

It may hurt today but someday you will exhale as your educated heart beats once again to the rhythm of love, a love that will find just one reason to stay, a love that wouldn't walk away.