Sometimes God takes certain people out of our lives so we realize, once again, that He's right there beside us, carrying us every step of the way, and has been the entire time. I think sometimes, when we don't have that person right there beside us to turn to, and there's nobody else right there, we turn to God, because He's always there. And for a time, we grow closer to Him, until the next good friend comes along, then we push God to second or third place on the turn-to-list...until those people disappear. Then we turn back to God again.
Maybe if we just turned to God first when we had a problem or question or worry, then to good friends, not the other way around, a lot of troubles could be avoided, and we might still have those friends for years down the road, not just for a little bit before God directs them down another path so we turn to Him first when we need help, instead of turning to them first. He loves it when we lean on Him and ask for His help. He loves helping His children, and He's always ready to...we just have to ask Him to.
