Easy Come, Easy Go...Yeah Right!

So, I've gotten pretty good at long distance relationships. I moved away from home, so my family is pretty much "away." My fiance lives about 15 states away at the moment, a long distance thing we have been doing for the past 3 years. And my very best friend lives about 9 hours away as well. So I know a thing or two about distance!

There are some really wonderful things about long distances though. I mean, for one it gives you the ability to see which relationships survive. It also makes you fully reliant on the effort you each put into each other. And the times you get to see each other are that much sweeter for sure.

But to me the hardest thing about long distance relationships (all types of relationships) is the moment when they go from being a nearby relationship (for lack of a better term) to long distance. Let's face it, most relationships that are long had to start when you lived closer! So there is that moment when the relationship changes.

But the important thing to know realize is that for the relationships that are meant to stay a part of your life, they change--not end! And at special times for the rest of your life, this relationship means that there will be reunions. (not like the dreaded class reunion, but the rejoining of good friends!)

A dear friend of mine gets choked up at any and all reunions. But I told her, that the sweetness and special moment that is wrapped up in a reunion is only possible because of the sadness caused by an absence. It's bittersweet. We all love getting back together, but that means that we had to be apart first.

Life is sort of like that though. It takes a few lemons to make you appreciate the lemonade! My point in all of this is that the best relationships are worth fighting for. Distance is no killer of love! It only brings your resolve and dedication to that relationship to the surface....and true, sometimes you may not like what you find. But often, it's the good stuff!

Such a deep flower!

So, I'm sitting at my desk thinking about how I really need to get back to my blog, and I'm sad to realize that I have nothing interesting to say today....which may be a whole blog in itself. But I'm looking around for anything exciting, and I see these flowers on my desk.

They have been there all week...leftovers from a baby shower last weekend. But there they are. Still blooming, still pretty. And a couple things dawned on me.

First, you should know that these flowers are daisies. They aren't fancy, expensive roses or that flower that blooms once for 30 seconds and dies....they are side of the road daisies! Simple, everyday, but nonetheless lovely. And I thought to myself, how many times do we want to be the rose, or the tulip, or a rare orchid? Maybe I'm just a daisy....simple, sweet, consistent, and still a flower through and through.

And in my pondering of this simple flower, I also thought about how those daisies just kept blooming. At night time, they were still up here on my desk blooming away. In the mornings, they weren't having a rough start! And it just made me think that I hope people see me that way. I'm sure I have my moments, but I hope (and have decided to make it my goal) to "bloom" all the time....that people would walk away and think what I did about those daisies: What a simple, yet lovely piece of God's creation!