If you want to make sure your heart never gets broken, there’s one guaranteed way to do it. Never open it up to anyone.

That’s the trade every real relationship asks you to make. Your time, your plans, your version of how you thought today was going to go. Marriage, dating, friendship, they all cost you something, and most days, that cost feels like too much. In this message,

Mark Clark walks through nine simple postures from Colossians 3 that actually make relationships work: compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience, bearing with one another, forgiveness, love, and unity. Nothing complicated. Nothing that requires you to have it all figured out. Just nine honest shifts that change how you show up for the people you love.

This message is for anyone who’s ever looked at someone they love and wondered if it’s even worth the effort. Spoiler: it is, and there’s a way to do it that actually works.