Be vulnerable or run away?

My “new” relationship with this man has continued. I have found that because my main purpose and intent is to have a divine spiritual and uplifting relationship, it actually makes me even more vulnerable. Before I covered up my vulnerabilities with a man, that deep core part of me that connects to God in my own way, and I safely tucked it in the hidden recess of my heart and soul.

Now that I am getting involved, I find that I become more sensitive if any of that connection that I hold so dear only to myself, is threatened. This man is deeply spiritual in his own way, but he has found it thru a different path. Somehow I felt diminished (without his conscious intent) because I sensed or felt by something he said, that my path is not the highest way.

 It really irked me because I believe that there are many paths to God. And again, like most conflicts and wars that have risen with everyone’s version of the path to God, I almost wanted to run away this week, and keep my own connection tucked away again.

This relationship is different because I am choosing to expose that deep
part of me with a man- and with it comes the most challenging, I sense,
relationship, to stay strong in my own vulnerability and attempt to intertwine and connect each others own sense of our own connectedness- without war or conflict.

 So instead of running away, I am forging ahead, little by little step
by step….and trust that I will be guided in the best direction possible.