Epilogue: Of Lost Loves and True Soul Mates
“The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”
-C.S. Lewis, “The Four Loves”
In life, we all make mistakes. If you’re the type who’s “allergic” to mistakes, you have to realize that life is about taking risks and making mistakes or failures. You have to live and grow from them.
That includes mistakes in the realm of love.
Some of you who are still single like to think back into the past about one particular mistake involving a particular “soul mate” in the past that you let slip away.
I’ll tell you a little secret truth: Soul mates are made, not born.
A person can be as attractive and compatible with you as you can imagine. But that person is only a potential soul mate. For someone to be your true soul mate, the two of you would have to go through heaven and hell together. The two of you would have to work together to forge a lasting bond, recognizing each other’s unique character and growing in spirit, over time, to complement one another.
So if you’ve ever grieved over the loss of a “soul mate”, bear that truth in mind. If someone who you were so in love with didn’t stay in love with you for long—or didn’t ever feel the