Puzzles and Pieces and NYC

CI'm sitting in the parking lot of my favorite sushi restaurant in town waiting on some friends to join me. I don't know if it's my cold or the changing season but nostalgia is heavy on my heart right now. As I write this, a song lyric is screaming in my head-"I think I've finally got it figured out, everyone needs someone they can keep around." (canopy climbers)
I've never been one to get emotional when a friend leaves because I've always known that there is possibility to see them again. But this time feels different. I think I've grown in the aspect of relationships this past year(and I know I have more to grow) but damn this hurts. Everything about this town is them. They are my past, and my present, and I can't imagine not having them in my future. It's enough to make me want to beg on the streets to make the $800 a month I would need to join them in the big apple. I know it's not my time to go yet, but I wish it were.

There is a season for everything. God better have something big planned for me this year. I know He has my best interests at heart but I'm still going to miss this little family that I've made. Hillary, Annie, Brian, Grace(who already left me;), and now Emily, you are the best brightest parts of my life and I WILL see you again. Soon. I love you guys more than you know and I can't wait to see what your lives will become.

Cheers to making a new family and new experiences.

"Some things are for a lifetime, and some things are forever."

I have made this comment a few times in the past week and it seems to really resonate with people. (I'm not trying to sound cool I promise:) So I thought I should just put down my thoughts about it, and why it's been running around my head.

Some things are for a lifetime: like marriage, children, careers, houses(sometimes;), basically everything we build while we are alive only lasts a lifetime. ONLY. In the spectrum of eternity our lives are 'but a vapor'. We get what, 80 years if we're lucky? It seems like a long time when you're 15, but at 24, the time is ticking!
I feel like we tend to focus so hard on physical things, and I don't just mean like money and stuff, I mean feelings. And emotions. I don't mean to discount them, I am just trying to get a broader view of things. We let our emotions decide what we eat, where we go, who we spend time with, ect... Let me reiterate, this is NOT a bad thing! God gave us emotions for a reason.
- Let me tell a story, there is a girl I know who is getting to know a man who has a daughter. My friend, who has been saving herself for marriage has had to rethink any potential with him because of that. This is noble of her, but I began to think, things like that are only for a lifetime...

Somethings are forever: the work we do for the Kingdom of God has lasting effects. Forever. Whether you are leading a Sunday school class, Pastoring a church, or having a great relationship with Jesus that people can see just shine out of you. When you live your life to please God, that is what lasts forever. And if you marry a man who already has a daughter, yet together you are able to do more work for the Kingdom-which is the better?

Now I know there are lots of variables that play into all of this, but this is just a broad explanation of what I've been thinking about. What do YOU think?

Matthew 6:20 "Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal."