Psalm 147:3
“He heals the broken hearted, And binds up their wounds [healing their pain and comforting their sorrows]…..”
The year 2025, I cried. Till the last day of 2025! It’s been a tough year but I know your plans for me, God, are good and not evil and I trust in Your plans, I trust in Your providential nature. I trust YOU GOD! But I am grateful! I am forever grateful to You Lord!
In the good and the bad I praise You Lord! I thank You even more because I am truly blessed beyond measure, surrounded by You and kept by You! Thank you so much Lord! Thank You Lord for yesterday, for today, and for tomorrow! Thank You so much Lord for eternity!
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Hurt…
Pain…
Heartbreak…
I have always been afraid of it. I watched movies and read tons of books and it always felt like it was necessary in everyone’s story. So I made sure I paid even more attention to what usually led to it so I could build defense systems to ward against it. I made sure no matter what, I would not encounter heartbreak.
Now, this was targeted towards love and romantic relationships. But I eventually found out that to protect oneself from heartbreak, one unconsciously shielded themselves from loving. Loving fully. Love is a risk. Trusting someone with your heart is a risk. A necessary one. You cannot love fully and protect yourself from heartbreak at the same time. To love truly, you welcome the potential of it not working out, of getting heartbroken.
With this discovery, I walked back….actually, I turned to God because…..nah, I am going to tell the story well.
My Father, my God, the God of the Universe, showed me this truth and I couldn’t believe it. I remember how it happened in the spirit. I sighed when it dawned on me the truth behind it. Then, He turned to me, and asked me if I was ready to truly and fully love. To fully give my heart to someone. And I said at the time that I was. So, He took my hand and we walked back to the beginning. He began to help me unlearn false narratives and realities, and sieve through the information I had acquired all through the years, removing all the wrong and leaving semblances of right. He then began to teach me afresh what love truly is. Who Love is. What Love did. And how, even Love gave Himself knowing that those He was giving Himself to would not receive Him.
Now, why is this important? Did I get heartbroken in the year 2025? Yes. Yes, I did. Not once either. Not also in the way you would expect. I was in a relationship, yes. And we did have to go our separate ways. But that was not the heartbreak I experienced strangely enough, and that was even because I had not loved fully. I did not realise it at the time but this was as a result of something deeper, and not as a result of the defense mechanisms. I went into this relationship desiring to give my all. And I did give all I had at the time, but I did not know it was not all. Therefore, I entered a relationship pre-maturedly, because as much as I wanted it and I felt peace about it initially, I was not ready for it. And we ended up going our separate ways. But like I said earlier, I did not experience a heartbreak when this happened, not as a result of the failed relationship.
Let’s just say that with God, the journey is always a continuous one and until we gain our perfection through the second coming of Jesus Christ, we continue our race here on this earth. I had a long way to go. And that was necessary to set me on the path that we needed to embark on together.
You see, heartbreak I discovered doesn’t just happen in romantic relationships but in relationships in general. And so, for the first time in my life, I experienced heartbreaks but not in my romantic relationship, and I had to learn to accept it. And now I understand why it is a necessity. You don’t have to experience romantic heartbreak, but you would somehow still experience semblances of it in other relationships or in ways you never expected.
I started this piece with two words and they are ‘HURT’, and ‘PAIN’. And these are the two feelings I ended the year 2025 with. Because life is full of it. Two characteristics of the reality we live in. The world has a lot of hurt and pain and heartbreak. And we would experience a great deal of it as we journey through our individual lives.
I had to learn to embrace this. I had to learn to accept this. And it’s my major lesson of 2025. And I learnt more than anything, the importance of experiencing this, what it does to our strength and our resolve. What it does to our tenacity and how we could potentially give up on a lot as a result of it. What it can do though, when we accept it as a characteristic of life on earth, is strengthen us for future aches. Giving us the ability to still press on and never give up.
Storms…
Jesus Christ promised us storms, and these storms sometimes will not be calmed, but instead, we would ride it till we get to the other side. And then it becomes a case of ensuring we don’t get consumed by the waves no matter what it throws at us. With Him in our boat, sometimes even sleeping in the stern of the boat, all throughout the storm, we are guaranteed victory. Honestly, I still don’t know how He did it, and still does it. I sleep. If anyone knows how to sleep it is me. But I do not sleep well when something is bothering me. It consumes my mind even in my dreams.
Rest….
It’s not about just sleeping, it’s that Jesus Christ rested in the storm. And that is what I am learning to do through every difficult situation life throws at me. Through hurt, pain, heartbreak and storms.
And this year, 2026, I am prepared for potential heartbreaks in any package it decides to arrive in.
Friendships.
Family.
Now I have to learn how to love fully with this potential risk in mind. Because I represent God. I am His ambassador. And He has said we will go again. And that is what we will do. Take stock of the past, what worked and what didn’t. Remember what He taught me in 2025, and we go again in 2026 fully opened to experience all God has prepared. All of it. No matter the package it has been wrapped in.