Letting go...

Well, this is something that I've had to do recently and I'd be lying my face off if I said it was an easy task. Humans, well, we're made to love, we're made to treasure things...and people, of course - the latter being the more valuable. I've come to understand that in life, there are seasons, there is a time for everything. There are people who I had in my life two years ago and now we can barely sustain a five-minute conversation. Not to say we hate each other, it's just that we can't be in each other's lives anymore.
I've also come to understand that everything in life changes; plans change, people change, feelings change but the one constant in my life is God. He's still the same God that swept my heart away four years ago, everything He said, He has done. Every promise, every time He told me He'd never leave,  every time He told me that I was held by such a fierce love, all of that is true.
Every time He held my nearly-shattered heart in His hands and promised that He was not through with me, every time the wind blows on my face and I am reminded that I am not alone. Even when fear grips my heart momentarily, and He speaks soft words of love and encouragement. Even in the times when the situation seemed much too overwhelming and He'd say, "go on ahead love, I'm with you".
This is my freedom; that I know Him, that I love Him, that I know His love for me, that I know His love for humanity.
It is because of this freedom that I am able to forgive, that I want to forgive and that I can let people go from my life without trying to pull them back in. There are people who have accomplished their mission in our lives, there are those who weren't even supposed to be there in the first place but if God has taken them out of our lives, it is only for our good, and this can only be a bad thing if we decide to go against God.
I love this quote by Mr A. W. Tozer:

"Outside of the will of God, there's nothing I want, and in the will of God, there's nothing I fear"

I find that to be so inspiring and that's really the quote in my life right now.
Recently, I had to let go of a relationship very important to me, and it's hard, I still want to talk to her sometimes, and there are times when I want things to go back to normal but this is His will, and anything outside of His will, I do not desire.
I have learnt to live unapologetically, I am only one person, I can only be one person effectively and that is myself. The people who are bothered by this do not matter, and those that matter are not bothered by this.