This weekend I have once again seen how God so kindly allows grace for all of us. I had been apart in friendship from a dear friend for months….silence compounded silence and wounds deepened in the lack of restoration of the relationship…..it seemed indeed the parting would be permanent….something that made me very sad, very deeply sad.
Then a text, a call or two, and the seas parted to bring together again a peace….a dismissing of whatever had happened to cause the rift….and a shared time of peace was kindly, miraculously found in a hectic weekend. Our relationship may not return to the one we departed on, but our love for one another is more than the friendship, more than the situation that caused our parting….and that never ends….
My heart cannot remain mad, hurt, or hard. I so dislike leaving any situation in strife, or disjointedness. It is an odd event in my world when such a parting lasts for more than a few hours….weeks had been terribly painful…. My own mistakes so often in need of grace, of forgiveness, of tolerance and kindness….that I find it easy to love others, forgive others, understand failings…for I often fail…I often fall short…..I am ever aware of my humanness…of my faults and failures…..and ways of seeing the world differently than my friends do…
Peace….what a blessing it is to have between friends again…..even if far apart physically, our hearts rarely distanced more than a moment….this had been a long fall.
Thank you Father for moments found, and peace restored…
God is God….and we are not.
Sweetie
