Your friends go on a trip and invite everyone but you. Your boyfriend or girlfriend says something you never thought would come out of their mouth. Your parents can’t make it to that one event you have been planning for your whole life. We’ve all been there. It doesn’t matter if they did what they did on purpose, or if it was just a miscommunication, but someone at one time or another has disappointed you.

Occasionally people that we don’t know disappoint us, but those don’t sting nearly as bad as when the people we do know hurt us. Sometimes, the people we love and trust with our whole beings have an off day, say something as a joke, or just don't think before they speak and in an instant, they have broken our hearts in two. When something like this happens, brick by brick you build a wall around your heart. “Next time, I’ll be prepared,” you think as you block everyone and everything out of your life. There won’t be a next time because there’s no way that anyone will get inside your heart to hurt you ever again. You remember the age-old saying, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”

But that’s no way to live. There is no one on this earth, not even the people that love you the most, that will not disappoint you in one way or another. After all, they are human. You have probably done the same thing to someone else, and you are the reason they build up their wall.

But, there’s hope.

The only thing in this life that will not let you down, ever, is the hope and peace that we find in Jesus Christ. "Jesus Calling"by Sarah Young says, “You will not find lasting peace in the world around you, in circumstances, or in human relationships….but there is a gold mine of Peace deep within you, waiting to be tapped.” Sure, God gave us relationships because our God is a relational God, but he did not place those people in our lives for us to idolize them. He gave them to us as a gift, a learning tool, and a reminder to always lean on Him during times of distress. So make relationships and allow those people in your life to make mistakes. But remember that they are a gift from the one who loves you unconditionally and wants nothing more than for your top priority and best relationship to be found in Him.

“We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.”

-Colossians 1:9-12