Final Goodbye

I took a journey at the end of 2023.. I went to a place I hadn’t been. I saw faces I hadn’t seen. And I knew, as I started my journey, that it would be the last time. I would be saying my final goodbyes…

You can call it a self-fulfilling prophecy or what have you. But I did exactly what I intended to do. With peace of mind and heart, I said my final goodbyes.

At the end of each year, prior to the start of each new one, I assess my year, my previous years.. I assess my relationships, my relationship with God. The months of November – January, for me are a time of introspection. I’ve wasted so much of my life repeating the same mistakes. Using only my words to vow change, yet in my heart, allowing everything to stay the same.

You see the problem with this is that, in order for God to truly come in and fix things, and create lasting change, we have to be willing to say a final goodbye to those things, situations, people that do not edify, or bring glory to Jesus in our lives.

It was not with regret, anger, or malice that I said goodbye. Rather with hope, expectancy, and love.

“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians‬ ‭3‬:‭13‬-‭14‬ ‭KJV‬‬

*Original image courtesy of Yours Truly ☀️🤍🌺