When I first moved back to North Carolina, I was fresh out of college and knew next to nobody besides my family. Over the past year, that has very slowly changed until … suddenly I’ve found it hard to say goodbye to all the people I have met and grown with. I’ve become a part of a working environment, a Bible study, a church, and a small group, all of whom have somehow worked themselves into my heart to where I am very sad to let them go for 11 months. I felt alone for so long and now faces are awash before my memory — dear faces of different shapes and sizes, people who I have worked with, cried with, laughed with, and been angry with. I will miss so much of their lives while I am gone.
At training camp, we were taught to be thankful and to grieve well. Many times, we do not fully grieve the past seasons of our lives, and so cannot move forward.
So here’s to a new season — a difficult one. I don’t know what lies at the end of it. I will miss you, my friends.
*Update: everyone on my squad has met their launch funding goal! Next goal is in April! AND I’M 91% FUNDED!!!!! *dance jig**
