The agonizing memories, tear filled songs, car rides, concerts, festival, secrets, friendship. "Do you know that some friendships are only for a season?" - a good friend and mentor asked me recently. And while this is a realization we all must come to at some point, it is not one we always want to accept. You never thought there would be a single person you would be closer to, and you swore to go on Valentine's movie dates forever, even when you were married, always eating greasy bread sticks and watching the newest Nicholas Sparks flick. "Some friendships are only for a season." However, sometimes that just seems wrong, and it takes a long, LONG, time to accept. Maybe you never will. We can be assured that God works all things together FOR HIS GOOD (Romans 8:28). But just because something is good, doesn't guarantee its simplicity. It can be heart wrenching, soul crushing, tissue soaking, and overall practically impossible to swallow. And while I'm a person whose life motto is "choose joy" who is constantly looking to the positive, sometimes even I don't want to look for the good, and only want to go back to the ease, to the friendship. I've been told many times that when two people divorce, it is the tearing apart of souls, and I have come to believe that this can be true for a friendship as well, as I have been left torn, broken, split. Regardless, I look to God, and to what I have learned, how I have grown. It hasn't been easy, and many growing pains were endured, but I can look back to developments that may have never taken place if it weren't for this tearing apart of souls. I realize how morbid that sounds, I promise, but while some friendships only last for a season, I also believe that some separations only last a season. I can agonize, remember, and turn away, but I will always pray for restoration, and never give up on God, who works ALL THINGS together for His good.
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