Goodbye. I say it more and more everyday, not with words though. I realize that the friends I have now I will probably never see again. During school and study, I seem to tune in and out of conversations. My head is elsewhere--in Singapore. I seem to be making it easier for myself by allowing those relationships to slip away early before I actually leave this country. But Proverbs 27:10 reminds me, "Do not forsake your friend..." The chapter goes on to tell us in vs.17, "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." I have some good friends that have gotten me through the three years I have been in America. Thank God for them! Some people I have gotten to know, even if just a little, will just shout out, "Hi, Kaitlyn! How are you?" You don't know how much that encourages me and kindles my spirit! I shouldn't be "throwing away" my friendships, but rather "storing" them in my heart.
Have you seen those Target store commercials on TV? The hello and goodbye ones? As I watch the commercial, I sit in front of my television trying to figure out the reason for those two simple words--the words we use everyday. What does it have to do with clothes?! I still don't understand it. In the same way, we may never know why God places the people he does in our lives, yet for everything there is a reason and a purpose under heaven.
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"For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." Habakkuk 2:14 NASB
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