“Let Your Faith Be Bigger Than Your Fear”

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It was Sunday a couple of weekends ago when my fiancé drove past a message board for a church. It said, “Let your faith be bigger than your fear.” I thought about what a nice message this was and how it could be applied to love and relationships even though it was mainly meant to be a religious message.

We all want the best outcomes in our love lives, but when we have unexpected setbacks in love like arguments with our significant other, dealing with a partner’s medical issues or dealing with a partner’s job loss, it challenges us to look within and find a sense of motivation to either keep going in a relationship or stop everything and start all over again.

If we’ve been disappointed with an outcome, we have had to have the realization first that we are not where we want to be. Perhaps we’ve had to break up with someone or have been through a divorce. At that point, we realized that something wasn’t working and that we wanted a better life for ourselves.

In making any change, we have had to believe that through faith that there was a better circumstance that we could be involved in and a better life for us ahead. Even though we couldn’t see a change already or there was not a tangible presence of change, we’ve had to envision what it would be like to be in a different circumstance and make different choices to lead us to…