Tonight I went to dinner with my dear friend Holly. Holly has been my very good friend for such a long time, I guess you could say our friendship blossomed when we were officers of the 9th grade drill team, had a common interest of shopping at Agasi, and thought we looked cool in braces. We actually thought we looked cool all the time.
We didn't...
Anyways, now my dear Texas girl is planning to up and move to Boston to start married life with her new fiance, David. I love talking with Holly about her plans. Everything is so exciting right now. Holly is literally about to be a wife, a teacher, and a northerner (eww). Everything in her life is changing! Everything in our lives is changing I guess. I don't know how we got here. Every time I talk with Holly I learn something from her. As I was sitting across from her tonight at dinner I just kind of realized how important it is to maintain friendships. There is really nothing more comforting nor healing than being with a person who knows you inside and out, and has for a long time. My friends and I are all about to graduate and scatter all over the world, and I'm not very good at keeping in touch, but it's so important! So i'm gonna try real hard. Even more than that I guess I've just been learning to value people a whole lot more lately.
God puts all kinds of people in our lives for a reason. We are made to live in community with people. Heather Hendricks says that as believers, our unity points others to God (John 17:20). So if this is the way we point others to God we better know each other deeply, and let people know us deeply. I am so thankful to have friends who love me enough to know me. Know what's going on inside of me. I will strive to do that for people around me so that we may point to Jesus because of our unity.
By the way, I'm learning this stuff because I'm reading this blog: http://www.herhands.blogspot.com/.
If you are a girl you should read it.
I'll be floating the river tomorrow. :) That sounds delightful!
Goodnight
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