Friends Come & Go

The last few weeks have been an interesting menagerie of emotions -- people coming in and out of my life, each change having its own purpose, perhaps not one I can pinpoint right now.  But it made me think of something I read once in the book The Shack.  You know how at the beginning of every chapter in a book sometimes the author will put little snippets of others' work?  I have had this one hanging on a Post-It on my desk for quite a long time to remind me that we aren't really to question why, but just to go with the flow.

Some of us live and some of us die;

some day God's going to tell us why.

Open your heart and grow with what life sends;

we'll meet again at the Festival of Friends. 

~ Bruce Cockburn 1975