A Pleasant Surprise
Today I got a pleasant surprise. While I was out at lunch I received a phone call. It was a great friend that I’ve known since childhood but hadn’t seen in almost a year. While we’ve known each other since we were only about four or five years old and grew up together, we kind of lost touch for a while. I met up with him and we sat in my office for about 2 1/2 hours. During that time, we talked and shared about what was going on in our lives and in ministry and I realized that this was a friendship that I truely cherished. Not because of what I can gain from our friendship, but because of the great memories and because of the great ties that we have.
I was amazing that even after almost an entire year of not really seeing each other or talking to each other, we just picked up as if we had spoken every day for the past year. We were able to share openly and honestly and we were able to encourage each other. I am ashamed that I haven’t kept up with our friendship and that I haven’t made a greater effort to maintain our relationship but have decided not to allow that to happen again. Friends are too important and relationships with good people are becoming too rare these days to just let them pass and not work at them.
To my life long friend, thank you for surprising me with your presence today and I look forward to more frequent conversations and times of fellowship.
I’m curious, what do you appreciate most about your relationships and about your greatest friends?
