The form of our hearts is not only revealed by the love, care, and grace we provide to those who choose to share a path in life with us, but also by the love, care, and grace we offer those who are there for us, yet reveal they must remain on their own path.

The full multi-dimensional depth of our feelings for someone is not revealed when someone chooses what we desire. It is revealed by how we adjust our love, care, and grace to comfort them where they have communicated they are in their life.

If we fail to offer love, care, and grace to those who are there for us regardless of the path they are on, we provide evidence that the form of our heart is nothing more than a paradigm of transactional care offered only to those who join us where we are in our lives.

One of the most spiritually humbling moments of my life was when I revealed how deeply I felt for someone and they communicated they could not join me there, but that they still desired to be a lighthouse for my soul from where they stood.  

In that moment I realized I could head back out to sea and continue my mission knowing that when I looked and saw her light, I would remember that I am never alone.