Feeling Guilty?
Day 148
After an appropriate time of grieving the death of your
spouse and after experiencing personal healing from your loss, you might
consider dating. New dating relationships can cause you to feel guilty. You may
feel you shouldn’t be having fun and that you are being disloyal to your lost
spouse. These feelings are certainly natural and will take some time getting
over.
“When you first start dating, you feel guilty for enjoying
yourself. That was a little awkward getting past,” says Marie, who lost her
husband.
You are not betraying or abandoning your loved one by dating
again. God does not want you to feel guilty about this. You are free to date,
and you are free to not date.
“This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and
how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us.
For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything” (1 John 3:19-20).
Heavenly Jesus, You
are greater than all my worries. I bow down to Your wisdom for my life. Amen.
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