Because of the fact that I am a pastor's kid, and now a pastor's wife, I have moved around a lot. I have friends all over the world and that is very cool, but at times I feel a since of loss at not being able to say I am still best friends with so and so and we were in diapers together. I move to a new place and I feel very lonely for the first couple months, and then I slowly, very slowly, start to let people near me and know me.
Yesterday God reminded me of how blessed I am with the friends that I have in my life. I have a friend from my senior year of high school that with out her coming up to me on the second day of school and asking me to sit with her at lunch, would have had a very lonely senior year in a new school. Then she went to Crown with me and was the first person I told that I knew Jon (my husband) was the one I was going to marry... after two weeks of hanging out! :)
Then I have another friend that I got to talk to yesterday after a long period of business and not being able to catch up. We shared what God has been doing in our lives and how he has been molding us, and then encouraged each other. A friendship that bloomed late at college, but one that will continue to grow as we are in about the same place in ministry, just starting out! It is going to be awesome to see how God uses both of our little families in the future!! :)
But I have so many friends! I could go on and on and on and say the most amazing things about them all. But that would be a book and not a blog... But if you are one of my dear friends, know how much you have blessed my life and Jon's and we are so grateful to call you our friends!
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