just like at the end of every year (and just as i contemplated in my last, seemingly unread post) i return again to the word bittersweet. somehow that word totally and fully encompasses everything i feel in these last couple days, and especially last couple hours. in a little under twelve hours i'll be leaving Taylor and all the wonderful friends i've made here this year....for three long months.
as i was talking to a roommate of mine online yesterday, i told her something that surprised me so much i went back and read it and realized that i really liked what i had just told her (ha...i'm lame. i know):
"departures and arrivals; goodbyes and hellos; pros and cons to everything create that bittersweetness that is always so painfully recurring. but euny, without the bitter, we'd never have the sweet. we'd never grow. we'd never be tested. and we'd never have to lean on God to be our everything."
does that mean i like it any more? nope.
does that make it any easier? absolutely not.
does that mean i can get used to it? wrong again.
but does it mean that God's faithfulness will never cease to amaze me? always.
"God is bigger than a 36 foot dragon" and he's bigger than a thousand goodbyes.
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3 comments:
haha...i was just thinking: why is my life one long string of goodbyes? but oh well. but like you said w/out the bitter we'd never have the sweet. I just like to think of it as beginnings and endings suck, but the middles are almost always good...
heidi
i love you.
ps...I feel proud of myself, because I sucessfully posted a comment and everything was in french...go me. :D
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