Finding Joy in The Fall

One of my favourite quotes has yet to be attributed to any author. Yet the words are no less poignant.

People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.  When you figure out which it is, you know exactly what to do. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed outwardly or inwardly.  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 wrong doing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.  Sometimes they die.  Sometimes they walk away.  Sometimes they act up or out and force you to take a stand.  What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled;  their work is done.  The prayer you sent up has been answered and it is now 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 may 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; those things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.  Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person/people (anyway);  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.

Today a friend of mine goes home, and after wallowing in tears for what felt like the loss of his presence, I began thinking about the words of a lovely and wise woman, who pointed out that in refusing to accept an experience for what it is, we live outside of the present.

I thought about it, and realized that living in the present is engaging in all moments and trusting the process enough to release experiences, to embrace new lessons.
If my hands are full, how can I hold new blessings? I'm in transition, and so is everyone around me. Tears may come with the end of a season, yet in falling give life to new beginnings. In resistance the sea of life is dammed, yet with acceptance we experience the ebb and flow.

The lesson of today is that  every experience is transitory. Good and bad are all lessons to be lived, learnt and released.  More will follow.
Amazing friends will come, and touch the heart. Sad times will appear, and cloak the spirit. Events will change the course of a lifetime.  And nothing I will do, can change that. What my responsibility is, is to live in peace with each experience.

Cheers to the end of a season.
I sit in gratitude for the lessons, and await the new.

Xo.