It's so refreshing to reconnect with dear friends. Tonight we had a lovely evening with dear friends....and it's just so nice to be so relaxed and have such a good time...and not want to leave...even though we don't get to see each other all the time.
I am so thankful for these friends... I think often of all the circumstances that caused us to meet and become friends. I sometimes think this friendship was ordained by God and has been planned out since the dawn of time.
After my separation, I was in dire need of extra income...I guess some things never change, but I digress. I started taking on extra home bound students. I had one student and my boss asked me one day if I would be willing to take on another. I asked how many hours...because I was concerned about being out of the house too much, and needing to be there for my kids. He said it was a couple and I said ok. I found out later it was more than a couple, but I needed the money and so I said I would do it.
So I went and started seeing this student. As time went by we started to feel more comfortable around me and we joked...I am sure it started with how much I hated winter....and my countdown to spring... As time went by we chatted and became friendly and exchanged cheesecakes and such and little by little a friendship bloomed. I am not sure of the exact moment when it happened. But we started including each other in family events. We started getting together...both families...and before long...it wasn't just a friendship shared by me and their family...but both of our families together.
We have shared each others joys and sorrows...we have had fun together, we love to eat together, we have joked, we have played games and we have had heart to heart talks. Every member of our families are an important member.
They had a child with a disability...something extremely difficult to go through. My marriage was ending..something extremely difficult to go through. We had both been or were in difficult situations...and those situations brought us together...and out of those dark places....we found a bright friendship that sustains us in many ways. I have always believed that even the darkest clouds have silver linings...but I am always so surprised when I see those glistening silver linings in front me.
It has been a long and exhausting weekend...but I am so glad that it ended with a visit to some of my very favorite people....and dear friends.
"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over." ~James Boswell
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