Let's Be Real

From the series - Heaven Sent
written by Rev. PNo
May 21, 2009

Song of Solomon 2:16
"My lover is mine and I am his"

Let's be real. Do you know what it's like to be lonely even when you are with someone? You have given yourself away in the name of love yet getting nothing back in return except a one-sided relationship that leaves you drained emotionally. Enduring restless nights praying for God to change the one you love while blaming yourself for what has gone wrong. Is this you?

Or maybe you are not in a relationship now yet you long to be in one. You feel that time is passing-by. That the clock is ticking and your dreamed one has not yet appeared. While attending the weddings of your friends you ask yourself the question "when will I get married", "when is it gonna come, where has it been". Nights pass with streaming tears across the pages of Bride magazines that have been opened by the desire of future hopes. Is this you?

I want to love. I want to be loved. I want to know what it feels like to be wanted for who I am and not for what I am. I want to trust. I want respect. I want to give myself away knowing that he feels the same about me. Is this you?

Then its real love you're after, the kind of love that when you have it you're not ashamed to speak of it with those close to you. It's this love that's missing from relationships. Why? We have lost the mirrored image, the passing of the torch. The preparation that comes from matured wisdom found in those charged to reflect it.

Want love, real love? That which is heaven sent? The love that makes you say "my lover is mine and I am his". That love has to be embodied, evaluated and embraced. It confronts you with a choice to be made that this: we can live the somber words of Keisha Cole when she says:

Now you can wait your whole life wonderinWhen it's gonna come or where it's beenYou may have got your heart brokenA few times in the past

Never last strong as it use to It don't feel as good as it use to beforeAnd all the things you use to sayThings you use to do went right out the door

or

We can learn together from an ancient yet relevant book sent down from The God who loves us all. Within those pages we can learn how to develop and search for real love. The kind of love that brings us to sing the hook of Keisha's song when she says:

I wanna be the one who you believeIn your heart is sent, sent from heaven

The kind of love that causes us to repeat the words of Solomon's song:

"My lover is mine and I am his"

Be blessed, I'll Holla~

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