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God spoke to me, this morning… and I was able to gain a bit more understanding in my relational situations.

Time. Can it really heal all wounds? It’s been many days… many weeks… many months, it feels like…

Time has definitely been one of the factors in seeking some type of resolution to these issues. But I disagree with time being anywhere near the most important thing there is to heal my wounds.

I think the most important factor in all of this is… love.

Through time, love can grow. Mere acquaintances grow into friends, friends grow into even closer friends.

Time, though, can also cause relationships to die. An example: two friends have a fight. Whatever the reason might be, and also depending on how close these friends were and how large the fight was, without the proper release of tension, time can only further exacerbate the relationship.

Love through silence. I don’t know if this is even possible. It’s almost like faith without deeds. Sure, deeds don’t mean one has faith, but without those deeds, it’s as if faith doesn’t exist. Love without time and words…

But the really hard situation is when those two friends can’t talk. Either one doesn’t want to talk to the other, or both have mutually decided against communicating. While time might be healing the wounds of both parties, time actually, and most likely, is make things worse.

One could still be in pain, and be unable to talk. One could be completely fine, unaware of the pain the other carries. One could just be saying to themselves that they’re fine, while they still carry the sorrow.

The main point is that both parties don’t know what the other is feeling.

Yes, it depends on how close these two people were, but man… without the proper release of tension… hmm…

Solution is simple: Love. Don’t stop loving. Love until you can’t love, and then love some more.

Stop thinking about how you’ve hurt others or how others have hurt you.

I was the one that hurt. I was the one that got hurt. If I think this way, I can do something about it, since the subject of these sentences are “I”.

Being able to love someone without thinking about how they’ve hurt… being able to love someone without thinking about how they’re continuing to hurt…

What’s the application from this? Well, for me… I can’t do a single thing. Frustrating, yes, but I’m finally finding peace through God every single day. Sometimes, I do kid myself: I’m still in quite a bit of shock and anger and pain. However, the more time passes by… the more understanding God instills within me… peace follows.

Now, to fight. To work. To take over the world.