I’m in the business of goodbyes. My (and every counselor’s) job is to work myself out of a job. I know I’m meant to journey for a season, the length of that varies, but it will come to an end. And that means I say goodbye. And those are hard. They are hard because I have walked alongside someone through very intimate and significant moments. I’ve been invited into a very precious part of their life and given the honor to see them and hold their tears and join in their laughter. So when they’ve done the restorative work they set out to do and we know the season of working together has concluded, it also means our relationship ends. It’s a unique relationship for sure but a relationship nonetheless. And that makes the goodbye a hard one.
Bittersweet Goodbyes
