Saying Goodbye

It's been a trying week, in more ways than one. At work we are installing a new software, and like anything new, it's trying and sanctifying working through it. But also this has been a week of saying goodbye and getting ready to say goodbye. A good friend from work and his wife just returned to his home state, not to come back for several years. A MK from Tanzania who was here on furlough this last year will return to the field on Monday. Not to mention that my sister Kristi is moving out next week. She's only moving about 15 miles away but it's still hard not to live with someone whom you haved lived with for all of your life. I wonder at why the human mind feels sorrow when someone you've become attached to leaves. Maybe its because that person won't be there to talk to, or be with whenever you want to. Or maybe there's a deeper psychological reason. But all in all, saying goodbye is very difficult part of life. I look forward to the day when we will have to say goodbye no longer to our brothers and sisters in Christ but live forever with them in God's presence.