"I noticed your happiness depends a lot on your friends."

Words you repeat a lot in your heart somehow hit so much harder and seem so much more real when it comes out of the mouth of someone else.

Those words were an affirmation. Almost as if because that now that those words had been spoken into the open and solidified in the air by someone else, it was like they were saying: "it's okay now Gabe, you can start letting go and moving on now, time to change and grow up for the better."

I'd moved on already, but it was only 99%. I guess that 1% was left and guarded by God so that I would realize that I still do need people. I need friends. I don't have to close up to everyone because friends are a huge portion of how God works through us.

We're made to be a community of loving individuals surrounded and inspired by His love.

I remember one of the 3 steps to escape any kind of fatigue, and spiritual fatigue especially for that matter, was to have recourse to outside power. And that does not only include God and His grace, but your family and your friends who He works through many times.

I feel like finally I can just sort of start ending that chapter in my life. I can move on now--fully--and start flowing with whatever God is painting now.

Praise God for God.

All the rights, all the wrongs, and still this life gives me a lot of hope and joy.

All because of Him alone.