Goodbye For Real
The time has come! Waking up super early tomorrow morning and driving 11+ hours down to South Carolina with the parents. I'm so excited to move into my apartment and to explore the area. After what I experienced last summer, I know that there's so much in store for me this summer as well.
It's a little bit different this year, though. This past year, God provided me with many of my now best friends and such wonderful community that I have to leave. I know I'll see some of them in three months but it's still so hard to say goodbye and be apart from them. I'm also older this year with a lot of my friends who have just graduated and are moving away for their full time jobs. While being gone, I won't get to see many of them before they move away for good so there have been a lot of early goodbyes recently. And goodbyes suck.
There's only so much a hug can give and one last wave goodbye can relay. It's crazy how a person can be physically in front of you and then be somewhere across the country within a day. It hasn't registered that these faces I've come to be so used to seeing won't be here anymore when I return. My dear friends won't be a walk across campus away or be able to hang out with me randomly anymore....and that makes me really sad. Distance makes everything so much more difficult but it also helps us to prioritize staying in touch. And it makes the reunions that much sweeter.
So I'm banking on hope right now. Hope that God will do awesome things and reveal himself in awesome ways this summer as well as the hope of being reunited with my friends sometime in the future. To all who are starting out a new chapter soon, I wish you the best of luck. May the Lord bless you and keep you. You have a Rock, a strong foundation--cling to Him in every way and you will never lose.
