Faith Filled Family Magazine October 2016 | Page 82

Authority Over
Division in a
Relationship
By Gabrielle Elisco

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here in between the doorstep, sitting on
the cold, metal threshold, she watched him
swing his bags into the trunk of the car. She
held back tears for so long that she could not hold
them in any longer. She was not concerned with
pride now, or who was right. The same driveway
she would stare at in anticipation for him to come
home from work each evening, she now watched
with tear-filled eyes as he drove off, sealing the
moment they had known to be coming for quite
some time now. As he pulled away, he looked in
the rearview mirror at the home he once pridefully
called his own for the very first time. That was
their home, the home he would take his bride to.
“How did we get here? Where did it all go wrong?
Could we have given it one more try?” were a few
of the questions just lingering the surface of their
minds.
Have you ever reflected back
on a relationship with someone
and wondered how it had gotten
to the place it is? Sometimes it
amuses our minds to consider
how we began a relationship
with one person, and at that time
was filled with laughter, happiness, bliss, and butterflies. You
could not get enough of them.
At the sound of their name, you
filled with joy and anticipated the
life you had planned in your mind
with that special someone. Now,
you are left with brokenness, regret, and a large, uncomfortable
wedge driven between the two of
you. Somewhere along the lines,
the two went wrong, the two dis-