When people let you down, you can either circle the wagons so it won’t happen again, or you can let the hurt help you to see (and give) what other people need.
“Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. . . . Lock it up safe . . . [and] it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” C. S. Lewis
“Be . . . courageous. . . . [Y]our God . . . will not fail you. . . .” Deuteronomy 31:6