A Goodbye Cherished

It seems to me that in life  there are a whole lot of goodbyes.
 Some happen when expected or wanted but it seems more happen when not expected or wanted!
Saying goodbye and hearing goodbye are a reality for everyone.
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 Has it  ever happened  when a goodbye is pushed on you, perhaps even startles you or shoves you? And you find that you are in a place you never thought you would, should or could, be in?
 Now some goodbyes keep  building  and  pressing  until the  goodbye itself becomes desperate relief.
 How about when you  know the goodbye is  'right" with your whole heart, you know it is right; but,  you just can't bring yourself to say it or do it? 
Then there is a kind of good bye that is elusive , slippery.  never seems to solidify, set, or materializes; the moment it occupies   just slips and fades away .

What of that goodbye, that is truly good.,good in every way?
Then there are those goodbyes where hope upon hope floods in ;and you find yourself   anticipating the new beginning,

For certain some good byes are best left in the dust of the past.
For certain some good byes are best cherished through to eternity


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i say to myself 'is there  any control , can we choose a goodbye well before the time to say it?'  What if we could change our goodbyes. I believe we can and do with a choice!
We choose everyday how we live, how we  love,  and this predetermines our goodbyes. We all know we will have to say and hear  "good bye" . We all know goodbye is inevitable. Do we know we can choose our goodbye  today?    

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i tend to think that we all really want the same kind of goodbye. The kind  made up of love. The kind where Love true beautiful love overtakes the moment of goodbye with an army of angels, and pain and sorrow flee!  That kind of goodbye i could  live for!
 Those goodbyes are  created and  nurtured by love, formed well before the goodbye is said or heard.   You know there is a saying, and I have found it to be true,  that  "God is Love" and  "God never changes".  In these two truths we  find there is joy, for the future, in a goodbye, that  has been  strengthened by the power of  the past ,where God and Love  have reigned . To choose God is to choose Love and in doing so  we ultimately choose our goodbyes.  

May our  goodbyes  be cherished right  through to eternity.


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