I'm running behind on my blogging. The snow messed up my schedule! :)
This week I am choosing to write about my favorite friend John. John and I met at camp about a thousand years ago. We became fast friend then and haven't looked back. While there is a 5 year age difference, we have agreed to disagree in many areas, but haven't let that get in the way of our friendship. I'm glad it was only a 5 year difference. A bigger difference might have stopped our friendship before it started! Actually, a bigger difference probably would have kept our paths from crossing at all.
My favorite thing about John is that there are no expectations. Well, maybe that isn't quite true. I totally expect for him to be there when I need him and he has never let me down. And I totally expect that he will call me when he needs me and he hasn't let me down there either. We don't expect daily phone calls - that's not called friendship...that's called CO-DEPENDENCY! :) We don't even expect weekly emails. We give each other room to have lives and we don't think every aspect of those lives have to include each other....which is nice, because when we do talk, we actually have something to talk about!
He's one of those people that I hear from regularly, but not often. When I see his name in my email inbox I get completely excited. And the best part is that we can go for a long period of time without seeing each other and still pick up where we left off. We laugh because it always "seems like just yesterday" that we were drinking coffee and chatting. There seems to be very little effort that goes into our friendship. God just made us perfect friends that way. In today's world, where everyone is trying so hard to impress someone else or force a relationship that isn't there, it is such a refreshing thing to have a friendship that is beautiful and natural and blessed. And for that blessing I am completely thankful!
Love you John!!!!
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I am so glad God blesses us all with people in our lives who we can completely count on in crazy times, but we don't have to live our lives attached to their hips. It's so cool that he knows you have so much going on in your life and still respects the fact that you can't talk every single day or respond to every single e-mail or phone call. What a blessing it is to have friendships like this!
Amen Sarai! I love friends that are always the same and who even though the world around us changes and gets crazy, they stay constant and normal! What an amazing gift those friends are!
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