Not long ago I received an email from a long lost friend. I had missed our friendship terribly, thought of her frequently and hoped that one day our paths would cross again.
So, you can imagine how excited I was to hear from her.
We exchanged several emails back and forth catching up on each-other’s lives and reminiscing about days gone by.
She asked me what I “did” for a job. And I began to tell her a little bit about what I do with speaking and writing. My old friend isn’t a follower of Christ and so she was understandably a bit confused when I said, “I work for Jesus.” 🙂
And after I shared how God was using some of the broken places in my life to walk along side other broken people, she wrote back saying she had a hard time seeing me doing something like this.
I understood what she was saying but…it was hard to read those words.
Exchanging emails brought back all kinds of memories of the person I “used” to be. And the reality of where I am now and where I was when we were good friends is different.
I realized that most likely we wouldn’t be reconnecting on a regular basis and it made something inside me ache.
Sometimes people  can trigger a raw reminder of the person we were before God changed our lives. And its hard to know whether to move forward with a reconnection with someone.
I believe an important question we should ask ourselves about reconnecting with someone from our past is, “Can they see me in the right light now?”
Sometimes people may play a big part of our history but maybe not our destiny.Â
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Right on Nicki. As the word says the old is gone and the new has com…That is how our god works. I agree leave the past tp the past. You are doing a good work that Christ began in you.
Going through something of the same….thank you for this!!
Beautiful Nicki, Thank you so much for this! I have been feeling this way about a couple people from my past that I thought would become part of my future, but they keep reminding me of the past and they feel my Walk with Christ is being a phony and when I am kind …. they call me Christian Sue and laugh which makes me feel sad inside. Thank you soooooooo much…..XO God bless you, my sister!
God has changed the old to new creation renewed in His deep love for us. Love this post…wonderfully said.
Nicki, love your words – always speakin the truth…keep writing!! your perspective always tugggs really hard on my heart. thank you as always for being real <3 ~Kristen
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