The Pain of Parting…

While waiting at the Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport for my flight back to Nigeria after a packed two weeks of preaching, counselling, training, business meetings, and sight seeing in Pittsburgh, I found enough mind space to write down some of the thoughts streaming through my heart and mind…

This was the first time of some real mental seperation from the whole experience of the trip.

Five hrs earlier, I’d just gotten through the saddest and most emotionally tormenting period of my life – parting with my team members at Pittsburgh International airport. It was such a ‘painful’ moment as we all fought unsuccessfully to hold back the tears… Not even the thought that I’ll be back with them in less than three months could stop the avalanche of tears that erupted as soon as we hugged each other to signal the final goodbye.

Throughout the two hours at Pittsburgh waiting for my connecting flight, the seventy six minutes flight to Atlanta, and the two hours at ATL awaiting my flight back home, all I could reflect on was the pain of parting…

I kept thinking, “why is the experience of parting with these people so intensely painful? What is this pain that I feel? Is it right or wrong? How can I make it go away? Should I try to make it go away? Should I indulge myself in it?”

By the time the boarding of our flight to Lagos was announced, I was still in pains, still thinking, still wondering…

Its so amazing how God could connect two hearts from different cultures and backgrounds…this is the genius of love and relationships – that deep inner spiritual connection between two souls.

Just thinking about it makes my body tingle with wonder and amazement…
But I do know that this deep spiritual connection – the essence of genuine brotherhood and sisterhood – is the driving force behind the Law of Agreement that I’ve already written on somewhere; it is the bedrock of outstanding achievements.

My personal value for the people God has put in my life has appreciated greatly over the past few weeks. People matter, they are important.

Ultimately, the true meaning of our lives can only be realized through a selfless offering of our lives for the wellbeing of other human beings…

Have you ever experienced the pain of parting in your life? Did that experience leave any lasting impact on your life?

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