A New Alley

A few nights ago I watched the finale of The Bachelorette. 

Ever since last season’s The Bachelor with Jake Pavelka, Allie had my heart. 

She was not only a simple girl with a huge heart and a love for San Francisco, there was something more to her.  Maybe I liked her because it was easy to see so much of me in her. 

In The Bachelor, Allie left Jake because she was forced to decide between risking love with him or keeping her career at the firm.  She was being forced to decide between the unknown and the comfortable. 

She chose comfort, familiarity – what she knew would remain stable.  I would’ve done the same thing, Allie.  I would’ve forsaken love out of fear of the unknown.

Fear stops us from doing so much!  After regretting her decision with Jake, and upon entering The Bachelorette, she left her job and apartment in San Francisco. 

She left her life for the chance of love.  And she found it.  In Roberto.

Letting go of her fear, she found the strength to let love in. 

Why did she choose Roberto, you ask? 

“He makes me feel so safe.”  Allie said it a million times throughout the entire episode. 

Safety.  Security. 

That’s all women need.  A lot can stem from security. 

Giving up your entire life is a difficult thing, but the stakes are so worth it. 

The last few months I’ve been battling between myself and God.  It has been difficult to let my old life die, but not for any other reason than that’s the only life I’ve ever known.  How could I leave familiarity for the foreign? 

But I’m doing it.  Like Allie, I’ve said goodbye to my old routine.  I’m focusing on the Roberto in my life now.  He’s the only one who can offer me security, love, and grace. 

God is in my heart. 

He is in my soul.  He won’t leave me.  He fights for me.  He wants me. 

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7).