Can you say good bye without having an empty feeling in the pit of your stomache? Can you surpass the personally loss...that only makes you want to weep? The bible says I can. My best friend is leaving, some of you have heard of "Him", some not, but here in the last days before going our seperate ways once again, this departure is one different than others. Finally , he's going away to college, for four years, and though we don't even live close in the first place. It seems like he's really for the first time LEAVING. Tonight , I was thinking about this, and asking myself.. why I am so consumed?? Isn't God my fulfillment?? Doesn't He promise to work all things out for good? AMEN. Thank you Lord!

-- Jillian (jellontheborder@juno.com), August 19, 2002