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 (any way); 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. Thus, there is a plan for our lives which is unbeknownst to us. The dark threads (pain and sorrow, trials and tribulations, mistakes, troubles, dark and dreary days) are mixed in with the threads of gold and silver (our joys, our pleasures, our good times, our successes, our happiness). Both are necessary in order for our lives to be shaped. We don't know what is in store for us, but God does. We don't know that path that our lives will take, but God does. We question the parts of the weaving that we don't understand, but it is all woven together with care and love. The pain and sorrow are there for a purpose, for us to learn from. And, in the end, the picture of our lives - the beautiful tapestry - is revealed as a wonderful work of art. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Click here to get Falling Objects ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥