This is how I have described the car crashes that we call relationships. In the grand scheme of time, our relationships with people can be attributed to about 5 minutes of such time.
When I think of the relationships I've had with people in the last 10 years, they are very much like car crashes. Lock eyes, say something or hear something interesting, smile - pursue further conversation - it happens in the blink of an eye. After the initial impact, it's simply sorting through the differences and similarities and growing.
Since I've come to Florida, many such impacts have happened to me. God has ran so many people into my path, diverted it, supported it, or just taken me to a completely different road. He has broken me down, piece by piece - often in painful ways. Faith has kept me from succumbing and an interest in growth in Him has kept me getting up, asking for more each time. Where one breaks me down, another lifts me up.
It's been a hell of a journey and I couldn't have done it alone. What I've learned, how I've grown, and what i've passed on to other people is all Him in me. I go now on another journey to crash into more people, and be crashed into by many more. I look forward to the stops, lurches, and breakdowns along the way - and I can only look forward to that because of the people in my life; past and present, have walked with me, held me, urged me on, torn me down in love, and built me back up again.
I'll never forget you Florida, and for all those that have watched this man travel the road less traveled; I thank you. Without you, I am not possible.
May God be with you all, and with me -
The 'diah.
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