Your new life is going to cost you your old life. There’s nothing easy about that truth, but it remains just that, truth. As we grow through life we lose people, places and things that are important to us. But they can’t always go with us where we are going. Sometimes they must remain; because we cannot remain and grow at the same time. Somethings got to give.
This thing that has come against you, that is challenging you in a way that feels like breaking, is really coming to clear the path. There is something in you that cannot go with you to the next thing. We often feel as if we are being punished but really, we are being pruned. I think all of our lives feel this way right now. We are trying to take comforts forward with us into the next place. We do not like to lay things down.
Truthfully, we cannot get to a new place by carrying all of our old ways with us. Some of us are fortunate enough to have wonderful people in our lives that can grow with us, at other times, we cannot grow with them. Some of the people who grace our lives are there for a season, they aren’t meant for the entire process. That’s okay. Honor the season. The sooner we accept what is, and let go of what isn’t, the sooner we can get to the other side.
Friends, not all relationships are meant to last forever; personal, professional, friendships, etc. You are not a bad person, a bad friend, a bad coworker because things end. Honor the season of your life that person was a part of. Accept the transition with grace.
