Inspired by a joke Katie and Jeremy pulled on me, tonight saying that they were going to break up, but having it all planned out and in the end teaching me to guard my heart.

So many times I allow my heart to be vulnerable because I want to help
But there are sometimes when you have to look both ways before you help your friends
Your heart may become the punchline of a “harmless” joke
Trying to give advice really drains someone emotionally and then when you look back,
They said it was a joke, but playing with someone’s heart never is the right thing to do
I need to look at the people with a cautious eye before I offer my advice
As a child of God, I am to protect my heart and want to save it for my wife
trying to help others out, but realizing there is a time and place
If you don’t watch out it blows up in your face
Trying to protect the thing that keeps you breathing
But wanting to be vulnerable will only leave me seething
I wanted to help in the midst of the heartache,
But then you realize that it’s your life at stake
is it really worth it, to let others use your heart as a punching bag
Then get up and play another game of cherades
I wanted to be real to tell others how i feel
It is then I realized the theif comes to destroy and steal
I realized tonight that I am loved by my maker
I know that it is a lesson a virtue learned in time.