2012 is a new year…for new possibilities and accomplishments…new relationships and friends. Almost as if we can be start anew as white as milk and sweet as honey, without any tainted ailments. Sometimes, 2011′s sad happenstances like to rear up again, even 2010′s, but it’s pertinent that we keep looking forward to what God’s so lovingly holding for us, even as he so tenderly holds us in His Mighty Hands.
One thing that weighs heavily is that of old friendships. A sisterhood bond if you may. There’s no error when an old friend apologizes out of a sincere heart, sometimes you just wish they would because back then they just couldn’t see as you saw things–or believe them for that matter. I strongly believe in forgiveness, but when someone reconciles by pointing out what you’ve done “wrong” in their sorry, then does it not mean so much less? I don’t see why they can’t just say their sincerely sorry, hope to move on in the friendship, since they now know what and who’s been tearing them apart, and hope for the best? After knowing each other for a couple of years, you’d think old friends would know that you’d take them back willingly and without delay. I guess time instills something different in everyone though, after all it has been nearly a year and half since the sisterhood bond has been broken. So, in essence, it’s normal to miss the sisterhood you shared with your best friends–perhaps it will always be there because you cared that much–yet then again, is not God enough?
He very much is.
And if He wills for your old and true friends that shared the sisterhood for a time to come back to you, then it will happen, but all in His good and perfect timing…much as if it were for only a season under Heaven that time should separate the closest of friends.
“A troublemaker plants seeds of strife; gossip separates the best of friends.” Proverbs 16:28
