Another school year has wound down to an end...always glad to see it go because each year brings a series of good and bad, up and down, sad and happy, success and failure. It is time to tuck it all away...and begin to rest.
This year has been a particularly pressing year of social and spiritual growth...at times it has been profoundly difficult and at times it has been a quick and painless slide into the next waiting lesson. There has been one familiar strand, winding its way throughout the warp and woof...a seriously wounded friend...hanging on around the edges, trying to work his way back into the past...refusing to change when I changed and grew and moved on. The lesson of walking away from someone who will not change, get better, listen to reason...or take responsibility, has made me feel disloyal and mean-spirited. Those negative feelings compromised my physical and emotional health at multiple levels...but no more.
I heard today that he put in for a transfer...with grace and healing providence, he will be elsewhere in the Fall. I can no longer help him or extend a hand to a wounded spirit which runs and twists and pulls away from healing...God help him. I cannot. I continue to grow, to heal, to change...as must he...and so I let him go with God's blessing and wishes for a better life...and I go on...to better things...with not a mean-spirited bone in my body.
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