Make new friends
But keep the old
One is silver and the other gold.
I don’t know that I’m the quickest to make friends or the best at keeping them. I tend to be very task-focused and forget I have friends. I have to continually remind myself that maintaining friendship requires investment.
I have to take the initiative, make the time for friends.
But despite my failings as a friend, I am thankful for the wonderful women I call friends.
This week I’m thankful…
…for like-minded companionship during state survey
One of my facilities was in survey last week and the beginning of this. It was, as it always is, busy and stressful. But the stress of survey was in a great way allayed by having plentiful opportunity to catch up with a fellow dietitian.
…for a quick stop-over from my folks
It was so nice to have my parents come to church with us and to go out to lunch with them after church on Sunday. They were on their way north for vacation and decided to stop in. So wonderful!
…for movies with my sister
After we successfully completed our survey (truly successfully-with only one tag for the entire building!) and after I’d celebrated with the team (erm, somewhat exhausting, actually, I’m not much of an after-work drinks person), I drove home and watched half of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone with Grace (who was on her day off). I got a bit too sleepy to make it through the whole thing, but it was fun to be nerds together, exclaiming and complaining in turn as the movie producers got something right or wrong.
…for a night with the girls
We’ve all been crazy busy this summer, so it’s been what seems like ages since the old Bible study crowd had a chance to talk. So when we did all go back to Wednesday night Bible Study to send Beth off to Greece for her short-term missions trip, we were talking up a storm. It was so good just to give and receive hugs, to catch up on life, to be silly and to be serious, to cry and to laugh, to just be with one another.
I am so blessed by these friendships, old and new and in-between.
Thank you, thank you, Lord.