
When I use the phrase “keep the door open,” I’m referring to you leaving your options open with someone rather than intentionally closing those options or proactively making a definite move to date this person.
Whenever I talk about forgiveness, I feel it’s important to first point out the biblical difference between forgiveness and reconciliation. This is important because many people unwisely allow themselves to keep getting abused by unhealthy people because they feel that’s what it means to forgive. But that’s not biblical forgiveness.
Sometimes things just keep happening for reasons we won’t ever fully understand on this side of eternity. Sometimes bad things keep happening because we live in a broken world that is not what God originally designed it to be. So don’t always look to yourself as the reasons for why one thing keeps happening over and over again.