Shalom

leaving my first youth ministry position in two weeks. this is a lot harder than i could have imagined. saying goodbye has been hard for me my whole life. i remember being like 9 or 10 watching my mom leave for the grocery store and i would want to go so bad. i would sit in the doorway as my mom pulled away, eyes full of tears. i know that's really sad because i was so old, but i just loved being with my mom. and then a few years later i remember going to chuch camp and having to say bye to all the campers every year was so hard. i would cry then too. obviously i was a pretty emotional kid. but that's not the point. the point is that because i'm leaving in 2 weeks, i know that it's going to be one of the hardest things i'll ever do. my kids hardly understand why. to them it's just another adult who "cares" about them walking out of their lives. so this transition needs to be saturated in grace. full of peace. i've been trying to help with the transition. it's just not easy. goodbyes are not easy. do you ever struggle with goodbyes? it makes me want to sit in my room and put boyz II men on real loud. do you feel me?