free heart

There's something very refreshing about coming out of a relationship, out of a place where the real heart of hearts is not engaged, but instead locked in a cage while the rest of the person masquerades and pretends as if they are completely fulfilled in the heart, when they are not.  

Once freed from that false place, or even freed from the striving to reach that place when it is just not happening, then I can be true to myself and I can love my own heart, as only I know how to do. (and God, of course.)

Then I can more honestly seek God's presence, and allow Him to fill that special place in my heart, which is exactly the way love needs to start anyway.