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January 5, 2008
:( one week ):
In the photo below, taken shortly after midnight on New Year's morning, my hand is covering the flash, creating a sort of faded out effect, which is an apt enough symbol, I suppose, for how I am beginning to feel that my relationship with the man at the center of the picture will soon become, not because any failing in friendship, but because he will be on the other side of the world in Nepal, and not a firm and solid friend just down the street, perhaps available for a cup of tea and a chat. Watching your friends dreams come true can be hard to stomach sometimes, when it means that distance, situational, spacial, interposes itself and changes your relationship. That is the way of the world, though, and I continually need to be reminded that that can be a very good thing. I don't like change much, I'm afraid. On the flip side there is something in the sorrow of parting that, oddly, is a helpful reminder of eternity, when goodbyes, I imagine, are not a necessity. There was an old CCM song that went "Heaven is a long hello." I like that. And because Jesse is going to Nepal to minister to street kids and show them God's love that is cause not for the sad faces of the title but:
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Ache for Eternity | By jackdas | 9:56 PM
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