Give up some old friends this lent

For those that love and grow in Christ more, we can find some of our old relationships very different. Perhaps some old friends dont grow with us. They may hold you back, put you down or be constantly taking too much from you.
Such is the journey of love.
For the GOD that commands us to leave our mother and father certainly asks us to leave behind old friends at times.
Let us be like glow worms content with our own light and find others happy in their own skin.

Yes and no

Does God give us more than we can handle? The screaming chronic pain, the howling winds of cancer, blinding depression, broken marriages, empty wallets and many mouths too feed! Well many may say its seems that way.
Do such things even come from a  loving creator?
Certainly in these times we come a lot closer to our heavenly Father.
Maybe for many the walls close in on them more than they can hold them. So the short answer is Yes.
However he will always give you the strength to keep going.

“Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.” ― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island