Love Across the Distance

Today, I had a nice chat with my friend who is also a fellow help provider. I told her about my new found adventure in the blogging arena. She just commented, "maayo [that's good]". I was expecting her to keep up with my excitement but instead she started to ask questions about my LDR (Long Distance Relationship). That was exciting too but that was not the thing I wanted to talk about at that time. Nevertheless, I entertained her point of interest and poignantly told her that she's back in Canada now. That's when she started to share how difficult it is to maintain a long distance relationship because she is currently into it. 

"You're not scaring me, are you?", I calmly commented on the messenger. She actually was ready to type a disclaimer that she's not scaring me. She was just trying to prepare me. She then shared her experiences and gave some advices on how I could keep the woman assured that I still love her and she still the one. I ended up pressing her to share more. It was evident in her descriptions that it was indeed difficult. But I admired her strength to honestly admit it wasn't easy. 

"Yes, it's not going to be easy. I have a lot of hard works to do." that's what I told myself. But wait, isn't it that more than our hard work, God's work would ultimately bring us to our destiny? I'm not trying to minimize the importance of my role to make the relationship work. I'm just trying to highlight God's role in making the relationship works regardless of distance. I'm not implying that It's not going to be difficult for us, I'm declaring that no matter how difficult may it be, because we believe it's God who brought us together we would endure it together with Him.

The challenge now is striking the balance between my faith and my work. I  think I already have enough faith on this matter. What I really need is to be generous of myself to demonstrate love, to practice honesty and to live with expectancy of knowing her more,discovering her being and appreciating her beauty inside and out.

We ended our chat with the exchange of "thank you" and "goodbye". My heart was filled with joy because someone who has been in the race ahead of me was willing to share her experience not only because she wanted me to learn from it but also because she sees me as someone who can identify with it and understands her journey.

I am convinced, It feels good to do soul-care but it even feels good to receive care for your soul. I just had one. I hope you will have yours as well. Practice mutual soul-care today!