How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?

So I've been doing a lot of thinking and talking with my friend, CeCe and sister Tippy, about relationships and heartbreak and we all came up with some interesting insights.

CeCe perspective goes along with the picture above. She's tired of giving her heart to men who always seem to hurt her. She's tired of saying "I love you," just for it to end in a broken heart. I can agree with CeCe because it does get exhausting after a while and it definitely sucks when the one you love doesn't love you in return or their feelings toward you change.

Tippy tried to interject and say that the man that God has for us (CeCe and I are single, Tippy is not) will come when we are spiritually and mentally ready. CeCe agreed and so did I but me being the impatient one that I am also thought "whatever, I don't wanna hear that stuff I just want a man already" (lol)....but then I thought about what the picture above says:

"If I knew it was going to hurt this bad I would have never told you I love you"

I read it over and over and thought, "what if God thought this way about us?" We often fuss and complain over why love has to be so hard and how complicated it is.....what if God kept His sacrifice and never died on the cross for us. He knew how we had hurt Him and how we would hurt Him but He still loved us enough to die for us anyway. This really hit me hard because I believe that it is ok to experience some heartache due to a break-up or whatever the situation may be, but that doesn't stop God from constantly showing us how much He loves and cares about us, even though we hurt Him and sometimes just ignore Him. So I don't think that should stop us from showing love to others and in the mean time, while your heart is healing just give it over to God.