Kindred Spirits

My best friend is moving tomorrow morning. I feel like a little piece of me is dying. I know she is still alive and we will talk, but it will never be the same. I didn't realize how sad I would be. I'm glad I have a husband to hold me when I cry. On the way home from her house I was thinking about the song "For Good" from Wicked and some of the lyrics just fit perfectly to how I am feeling:

(Glinda):
I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you...

Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good

(Elphaba):
It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend...

Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you

(Glinda):
Because I knew you

(Both):
I have been changed for good

I have definitely been changed for the good because I knew Lindsey. Thank you for changing my life for the better. Thank you for listening, talking, laughing and crying with me. I am so grateful that we moved to Oregon and landed in the Columbia River Ward. We are blessed with many wonderful friends and I have learned and grown so much over the past 2 years. This has been a wonderful time in my life and I would not change a thing. Lindsey, I will miss you, but we will always be friends and when I get sick of the rain in Oregon I will just have to come to visit you! I love you.