Goodbyes are Hard

This Covenant group (see post below) and our members have become an important part of my life. Tuesday evening we met at the home of one of the members, so that after our time together we could eat a meal together, to say good bye to our loved member that would be leaving. It was a hard evening for us, but at the same time a good evening. Goodbyes are very, very hard. Her home was on a beautiful lake quite a ways out of town. We sat by the water for our group time, it was such a beautiful setting, the weather was warm and lovely. We ate our meal on her deck overlooking the lake. During and after the meal, we visited and talked to our member that’s moving. We gave her a gift that we put a lot of thought into, getting just the “right thing”, (actually, the idea for the gift we believe was a “spiritual prompting” from one of the girls!) we were happy that she really was touched and loved it. She then surprised each of us with a potted aloe slip in a pot that she painted herself and trimmed with ribbon, we knew she fixed each one with her heart. One of our gals, who is the best seamstress ever, made each one of us a "crying" hankie, with an embroidered heart on it, for us all to use when we cried!

We told her that we would take a “road trip” together to visit her, and one member suggested she could remain part of our group via “speaker phone” (ha ha). We are definitely going to miss our loved one, she will remain in our hearts, and will be with us in spirit each Tuesday night!