The Story Behind the Ache

As told to me by my best friend, Jesus:

All women are born with an ache in their hearts for a companion. It begins when we are small and constantly desperate to climb into our fathers’s arms. As we grow into teenagers it materializes in the form of the common "dating game". We wonder if a certain someone "likes us", and we spend countless hours dreaming about the one we "like". But as we mature into young women and approach a marriageable age we start to experience this ache in a different way. Instead of needing to have someone in our thoughts, we are desperate for a lifelong companion. As we struggle to follow the Wisdom of the Spirit in knowing that we are not yet ready to marry, our hearts struggle to find a blance of waiting for our dream to be fulfilled when we have such a desperate need for fulfillment right now. Why, we ask, would our father in heaven give us this desperate ache in our hearts now when we know it can’t be fulfilled for several years to come? Some might say it is for us to learn patience, but the true meaning of it is this: we are living the purpose of the existence of our world. Let me elaborate. When we feel this ache in our hearts it is painful enough that we begin to wonder, Lord, have you felt this before? Do you know what I’m feeling? He replies by reminding us of the story of creation. God created us because he was eternally alone. He wanted and needed a companion, so he created man. But better than His creation of man was His design for our lives to be such an exact image of His that He also created woman. And in woman God put a tender heart with a desperate need for a mate. He put that desire in man too, perhaps not so strongly. So how does this all come together? Here is the truth. This ache in our hearts, girls, it not about us! God gave us this ache "before we were ready" because He wanted to remind us that this ache is why the earth was created! He felt this ache first and so much more stronly than we ever will. His heart ached, so He created a companion for Himself in the Church, His bride! We were given a small piece of Him in our hearts to remind us that He longs for us every day. You are His bride, and He wants you to remember that!