Love Beyond Seasons

It is not always about outgrowing people.

That language can sound final, as if one path is higher, one lower.

In truth, it is often simply a matter of seasons.

Some souls are meant to walk beside us for a stretch of the journey,

then step away for their own unfolding.

Others return in a new time, in a new way,

once cycles have ripened and lessons have been lived.

Like the forest, we are not all in bloom at once.

Some trees are blossoming,

others are shedding,

some are standing bare in winter’s stillness.

Yet the same sun rises on them all,

and the same roots intertwine beneath the soil.

Those who seek safety often crave definitives:

labels, conclusions, guardrails.

They want to know: Is this over? Is this forever?

But sovereignty lives in a deeper knowing

that love is not bound to circumstance.

It is not canceled by silence,

not diminished by distance,

not undone by endings.

Unconditional love is eternal.

It transcends the shifting forms of relationship.

It evolves beyond the categories of together or apart.

It remains, always, as the quiet river beneath the ground,

flowing even when unseen.

So when paths diverge,

we need not harden our hearts with finalities.

We can bless the divergence,

trust the timing,

and rest in the truth that love does not end

it only changes its expression.

For in the eternal field,

we were never separate to begin with.