Proverbs 17:17 - A friend loves at all times.
The older I get, the more I cherish my friendships. God has given me 3 best friends since high school (one of those has been my best friend since 6th grade). During and after college we all married, moved to different towns and started our families (I always lived the farthest away!). We tried to get together as often as we could, usually to help celebrate new arrivals. No matter how many months (or years) we spend apart, we always pick up right where we’ve left off. We always bring up the same ridiculous stories of school days and laugh till we cry.
Today we got our families together at Alexis’ house. It was so much fun relaxing by the pool, eating Ashley’s grilled burgers, introducing them to terere, watching the kids play together, and catching up with friends.
This is what Lauren wrote to us before we met:
I have been thinking about how much our lives have changed and the struggles and blessings that we have all been through since we were all together. We have struggled with moves, changes of jobs, financial insecurities, deaths of loved ones, illnesses, hospital stays, premature births, spiritual warfare and cancer (to name a few). We have also been blessed with moves, new jobs, new babes, spiritual warfare, new homes, new brothers and sisters added to our spiritual family, and the blessing of seeing God is action throughout it all (to name a few). I would love if we could have a special time of prayer tomorrow. Nothing super structured or anything. But just a little time set aside to thank God for all we are blessed with and that we can all be together again.
Looking forward to seeing y'all!
And that is exactly what we did. After a day of playing, we prayed together. What a blessing great friends are!
fun in the pool
Showing off
Best friends
Here's the whole gang
1 comment:
Such a sweet post! Love y'all bunches! I'm blessed to have you in my life. Lauren
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