But I have a thought. I think Jesus said goodbye the same way He lived all the days before the hurt, betrayal, rejection, and abandonment. While the relationships certainly changed, He didn’t let the goodbye change Him. He let people walk away without letting go of who He was. Even when people turned on Jesus, He didn’t let a goodbye turn Him into someone He was never meant to be. And while I’ll be the first one to admit I’m nowhere close to the purity and perfection of Jesus, I also don’t want my goodbyes to make it look like I’ve never spent any time with Jesus at all.
