Will Our Yearning For Love Ever Go Away?
If there is one cross that single people have to bear, it is the yearning to love and to be loved.
It is that desire to have that one person who can be their partner in life, a person who will be there for them through good times and bad times, with the opportunity to bear children whom they could call their own.
For while we could all love in many ways, there is a path that we may all crave for deep within us.
Even before the fall of man into sin, God Himself said: It is not good for man to be alone.
No one wants to be alone. Even loners long for someone who could listen to them and who could cheer them on along the road of life.
We want to have that one person to whom we could pour out all the love we have in our hearts. We want someone to witness our journey, to lift us up when we're down and to tell us that we are not alone.
There was a time when I thought that if only I could be more religious, this yearning would go away.
If only I could grow closer to God, I'd no longer thirst for this kind of love.
But I have realized that sometimes, God allows this yearning to exist despite my faith. He does not take away every emptiness in my heart.
I must accept that while living in this life, I may always feel this yearning within me. While I will be at peace with God, He may not heal every wound in my heart.
Yes, I'm satisfied with God's Love. And it is true that I believe deep within me that His love can never be replaced by any other kind of love.
But my wound reminds me that I am not yet home. My aching heart reminds me that I have yet to see Him face to face.
There in heaven, He will take away all my longing. There, I shall meet Him and satisfy every thirst in my heart.
For now I must bear my cross, but not in despair. I pray that I may bear it in humility and in hope. Enduring this time of waiting, until my joy will be complete at last!
Jocelyn Soriano writes about relationships and the Catholic faith at Single Catholic Writer. She is the author of To Love an Invisible God and Mend My Broken Heart.
I will add you to my daily rosary intentions; for Jocelyn to find her divine purpose; if it be to love a man with her entire being or to love everyone with whom she comes in contact in a God-ly manner. A Franciscan friar with whom I am acquainted tells me to be a 'loving person". I know that still doesn't alleviate that ache that we both; we all, feel to be connected to that one someone.
Granted, you may not bear a child but that does not mean that you cannot give all of the love within you (and I believe that you'd be willing to do so to the right man in an effort to assist him on his way home to heaven). Isn't that really the purpose of Christian marriage; for one spouse to assist the other on their walk home to God?