The biggest blessing God bestowed on me in the last decade was that though I had a very tough time many times, but I always had someone with me, to give support, to love to take care and to help me get through it. Whenever I think about the past ten years or so of my life, this is one thing for which I thank God every day and I feel really blessed. It fills me with positive hope and radiance.
My biggest regret – I haven’t been able keep all those people with me. Some out of my own stupidity where I was to foolish to understand the complexity of things and some just due to circumstances. Some people are still in my life but I am not a part of their remembrances. I know it’s selfish but that hurts.
Hopefully where relationships are concerned, this decade will be better.
A couple of lines, though corny, are still my favorite –
Are you a Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime?
People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.
When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON . . . It is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend, and they are! They are there for the reason you need them to be.
Then, without any wrongdoing on your part, or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. Sometimes they die.
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. Your need has been answered, and now it is time to move on.
When people come into your life for a SEASON it is because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. They bring you an experience of peace, or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real!
But, only for a season.
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.
Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
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