I can relate to such a goodbye, and I hate that I can. Life doesn't prepare you for severing such ties. It's still hard some days. I get all distracted by life or my thoughts. Seem to be in a cloud of some kind or another most days, but when I'm focused at work, this can be quite a help. Hyper focusing, a blessings and a curse, (no) thanks to my ADD. Today, It's causing distraction. I had better get back to writing my lesson for tonight!
And at the end of his blog was what I was looking for:
“For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”
Ephesians 3:14-21
Thanks for your honest words. Thanks, too, for the link to that other blog about goodbyes. What a painful read--painful because it's so accurate. I've said a few of those goodbyes but never been able to put them into words like he did. Bless you as you contemplate your goodbyes. God will be standing right there with you. That Ephesians verse has been one of my favorites for all of my adult life. It's like a symphony!
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