Last week we talked about community — why we need it and why we run from it. But this week, we're sitting with the question that came after: what about the friendships you lost somewhere along the way?
Not the ones that ended in betrayal. Not the dramatic fallouts. The ones that just… quietly drifted. The friend you talked to every single day until one day you didn't anymore. The cousin who once knew everything about you. The woman who helped you survive a hard season and somehow isn't in your life the way she used to be.
There was no big goodbye. No closure. Just silence, distance, and memories that still tug at you when they cross your mind.
In this episode, we're talking about the grief of dismantled sisterhoods — the kind nobody really names, and the church often skips over too quickly. We revisit the story of Ruth and Naomi through the lens of Orpah — the woman we've reduced to a background character — and find that her story might be the one that most of us are actually living.
Because not every person who leaves your life was toxic. Some people were deeply meaningful for a very real season. And you are allowed to grieve them.
We talk about:
This episode ends in prayer — for the woman carrying this quietly, who never got a funeral for a friendship that changed her.
Scripture Reference: Ruth 1:6-18
Take what you need, leave what you don't, and keep exhaling hope.
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