Sunday Sentiments: Old Friends

 

            This week, a friend of mine drove two hours to see me…for the first time in nineteen years.

            Do you know what an absolutely beautiful thing it is to pick right up with a friendship where you left off almost two decades before?

            Deanna and I became friends when we were student workers together in the Financial Aid Office, and we’ve stayed in touch all these years on social media. I sent her a message a few weeks ago to thank her for a post that had encouraged my heart, and she responded by saying it had been far too long since we’d seen each other. Could she come visit me?

            Of course!

            So she came and we ate turkey sliders and grapes and talked about life over the past nineteen years. She caught me up on her husband and four sons, and I caught her up on our whirlwind of a decade.

            We talked, we laughed, we reminisced, and our time together was over all too soon.

            Back in the Financial Aid days, Deanna was sweet, bubbly, and always focused on praising the Lord. Not one thing about her has changed. She prayed over me and the ministry Ryan and I do together. She encouraged my heart, and I hope I did the same for hers.

            What a blessing to have a friend who will pick right up where we left off so long ago. What a blessing to have a friend who doesn’t view that as an insult, but instead recognizes it as life just being life. What a blessing to have a friend who doesn’t skip a beat.

            May I be this kind of friend to those around me!