Five Minute Friday: Goodbye

I can hear the Muppets singing...

"Saying goodbye

Why is it sad?

Makes us remember the good times we had

Much more to say

Foolish to try

It's time for saying goodbye..."

And I get a little pang in my heart.
Dozens of goodbye visions

flash across my memory
and wave of nostalgia overtakes me.

I have been known to say, "I always have to say goodbye to someone I love. Never do they all get to be in the same place." I think that is why my wedding day was so special. All my favorite people, or at least a representation of all of the lives I have lived, gathering in the same place.

That's what having your cake and eating it too looks like to me.

I have lamented having to live a life where I learned to say goodbye before I even took my first step. It's hard. It breaks your insides. You wonder if you will make it until tomorrow.

And yet, somehow, you realize that you are a little richer, a little wiser, a little more appreciative, thankful, gracious because God gave you so many people to love and be loved by.

And maybe the value in that is worth the price
of all those goodbyes.

In case you have never seen it

OR if you would like a trip down memory lane,

here is the clip from Muppets Take Manhattan

that was playing in my head as I started this Five Minute Friday.

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