That’s the biggest of all risks in this journey. It’s not that we will risk trusting and possibly have our hearts broken again. It’s that we won’t grow and heal from what happened. As long as we are paralyzed in the vicious cycle of trying to control people or avoid people, we will attract that same level of dysfunction in future relationships. We won’t move on toward the healthy, trusting relationships we want. We will stay stuck right in that same pit of pain where we are angry at the people who betrayed us, trying to control what we don’t trust, doubting that God really has good in store
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