I can't believe it's been over a year. Life has a way of getting beyond your control (an understatement, huh?). A year older doesn't always mean a year wiser, but in your case, my dear sweet friend, this year's gained you a decade or two of wisdom. It is simple and lovely and sweet to my spirit. As the song says, "There's somethin 'bout just being with you, when I leave, I feel like I've been near God. . ." ... and that hasn't changed. If anything, it's deepened, intensified, and sweetened-- and all the more in light of this separation .
You've awakened in me the beauty of connecting soul to soul again, and the need to be me no matter how far i've roamed. There is nothing more refreshing than 'being where you are' and being told you're Okay. You're loved. You're allowed to be you. You don't have to spend your life trying to be where you are not; someone you're not; for people who are all trying to be somewhere or someone who they are not.
Thank you for this gift. For loving me for me, and not wanting me to change to please anyone or to fit into a mold. Thank you for getting it. For sharing it. For just being you.
Thank you for making cherished memories once again through coffee, cameras, and car chats. I have not had much to say lately, and your gentle inquiry has given me validity again. A place to start. Food for thought. (And thank you for not apologizing too many times for speaking your heart to mine. ) :) Just loving people where they are, not always having an answer or advice, can be the greatest gift of all.
And you're right. There is something about truly enjoying the things that make you happy that stirs up life from within. . . that can be an act of worship. Finding your self doesn't have to be selfish. We've been set free for freedom's sake. To be who we were always meant to be. Individual and unique... recreated for the glory of God. And just because you may not feel it all the time, Truth remains true. Love remains stronger than death. Faithful in my straying. Perservering harder than my stubborn will. It's so different from our love. It's so not conditional. . . And It's never swum the deepest ocean, but It's walked upon the raging sea. It's never climbed the highest mountain, but It's walked the hill of Calvary. And just to be with you, He's done everything...
Thank you for reminding me! I needed that. (and that's...Okay!)
Here's to a whole New Year!!!
You've awakened in me the beauty of connecting soul to soul again, and the need to be me no matter how far i've roamed. There is nothing more refreshing than 'being where you are' and being told you're Okay. You're loved. You're allowed to be you. You don't have to spend your life trying to be where you are not; someone you're not; for people who are all trying to be somewhere or someone who they are not.
Thank you for this gift. For loving me for me, and not wanting me to change to please anyone or to fit into a mold. Thank you for getting it. For sharing it. For just being you.
Thank you for making cherished memories once again through coffee, cameras, and car chats. I have not had much to say lately, and your gentle inquiry has given me validity again. A place to start. Food for thought. (And thank you for not apologizing too many times for speaking your heart to mine. ) :) Just loving people where they are, not always having an answer or advice, can be the greatest gift of all.
And you're right. There is something about truly enjoying the things that make you happy that stirs up life from within. . . that can be an act of worship. Finding your self doesn't have to be selfish. We've been set free for freedom's sake. To be who we were always meant to be. Individual and unique... recreated for the glory of God. And just because you may not feel it all the time, Truth remains true. Love remains stronger than death. Faithful in my straying. Perservering harder than my stubborn will. It's so different from our love. It's so not conditional. . . And It's never swum the deepest ocean, but It's walked upon the raging sea. It's never climbed the highest mountain, but It's walked the hill of Calvary. And just to be with you, He's done everything...
Thank you for reminding me! I needed that. (and that's...Okay!)
Here's to a whole New Year!!!
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