Lovely Secrets

The Grand Rapids Times

It occurs everyday; millions of people indulge themselves in relationships prematurely.

We experience this thing called love at first sight.

However, unknowingly we ignore the lovely secrets.

He doesn’t ask questions about her, and she doesn’t care to raise questions about him.

The most that many of us know about each other are surface characteristics.

She doesn’t know that he has the capability to take advantage of her; physically, mentally, and emotionally, in the future.

He has no idea that he is just one of her trophies.

The cost is too high to ignore the lovely secrets.

I am someone that once ignored the lovely secrets and someone that once had to learn hard lessons from doing so.

Now, I see young leaders in charge of the future ignoring these secrets.

I see young people jumping in and out of relationships like they’re playing double dutch.

I see young girls continuously hurt, crying more tears then a family attending a funeral.

I see young men seeing more women than a beauty salon on its best day of business.

How is all of this happening – all because people aren’t taking the time to discover the lovely secrets?

It is crucial for people to know their significant others.

Not to put a damper on a blessing such as marriage, but a person can place a ring on your finger one day and place hands on you physically to harm you the next.

Love takes and requires a lot of devotion.

If people are willing to devote the time in effort in loving someone, they should be willing to put in the same amount of time to find out who people are.

We can’t afford to be naïve we have to remember that with love comes the lovely secrets.

One for the week: “The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.” Ecclesiastes 7:8