Hey Lynnette! This post's for you!
SURPRISE!! :)
I met my best friend when I was in the fifth grade. We were set up - by my sister. (Too bad she didn't know any guys my age...her skills for finding kindred spirits seem to be pretty great!) Anyway.
My sister and her husband moved back to our area (he's a minister and took a new church) and Lynnette was selected to be my Sunday School tour guide when I visited their church for the first time. Lori thought we'd be good friends, so she set up a playdate of sorts at her house and...well...the rest is history.
I have a lot of great pictures of the two of us through the years, but I want her to still be my best friend at the end of this post, so I'm going to NOT post those. We'll both be glad about that later. 
* Lynnette was my church function buddy all through junior high and high school. She came with me to all manner of lock-ins, weekend retreats, and church camps. She was so long-suffering, bless her heart.
* She put up with junior high and high school crush...after crush...after crush. SERIOUSLY would not be surprised if God puts an extra jewel in her crown for this. Hours and hours and hours of listening to me yap on and on about the cutest boy(s) in the whole wide world.
* Speaking of crushes...there was one particular guy that I just l-o-v-e-d, and she consented to going with me to see him in a local play. After the play, she was the one who pushed me (literally) to go find him and say hi. We still shake our heads about the (rather unexpected) hug I received from him. She said it lasted so long, she could have gone for a hamburger and still made it back by the end. Yeah that's kind of true. What can I say?
* Lynnette is also a writer, so we have that creative, artistic flair in common. She, however, can write poetry. We've already been over my (lack of) poetry skills. So I admire that in her. Several years ago, she wrote a poem about friendship, framed it, and gave it to me as a gift. I still have it sitting in my living room, right beside the picture of the two of us on her wedding day.
* It was in her wedding that I got to serve as maid of honor. That was a fun weekend and a fun wedding. LOVED the dress I wore in that wedding. It was yellow and had a tiny little train. Adorable. That was also my first/only time to ride in a limo. Loved that!
* During my desert journey last year, I have absolutely no clue how I would have survived without her. She prayed for me, listened to me (sob) on the phone night after night, and sent so many encouraging emails.
* She also spent my birthday with me last year. She lives in Virginia Beach and was my tour guide for my very first glimpse of the ocean. (She's always my tour guide to something, isn't she? Too bad THAT doesn't pay more for her!) She took such very good care of me that weekend, when I was already deep in the grief of the desert. She took me shopping and out to eat and got sunburned with me on the beach.
* She's very wise. I wish I had her kind of wisdom. She's calm and logical...the perfect counter to my loud and dramatic.
I love this girl - I could go on for many more posts about the things we've done and the joy we've shared together. I love having a deep friendship that goes back that far - and there's a comfort in knowing it will go on forever. She's stuck with me now. :)
Lynnette, I just couldn't have asked for a better lifelong friend. God picked you out just for me, and I'm thankful for you!!
And how about you? What do you love about your best friend?
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