Friends and what-not...

I don’t know why it has taken me so long to write this blog. I had one written, but apparently my computer did not like it and decided to erase it. I thought it was actually a good one.

I wrote it at the time of graduation, the time when many emotions overtake you. You can’t get over the fact that your friends are all going their separate ways. Some of you will reunite in the fall and others are taking their diploma and moving on with the days of their youth. It’s also a time for reflecting on the memories that you have made over the year. The original blog was full of all this good stuff. But now after having a month to get past the first shock of “Ah, summer is here! What am I going to do without everyone!!?”, I have a much better perspective on things.

I feel that at the close of each school year I always look back and say that it was somehow the best year of my life. Maybe I was never as genuine in the past as I feel I am when I use that statement to describe this year or maybe each year is truly getting better and better. Whatever the case may be I feel that it applies to this past year.


This year I met a group of people that have sincerely touched my life. Unknowingly they have each shown me what it looks like to serve others and to serve God, to love others and to be passionate about the things of their heart. They’ve shown me that the time spent in fellowship with one another is priceless. My best friend, Saryl, has taught me the meaning of being who you are and loving who you are. She’s shown me the beauty of life and the beauty in other people that I had so easily overlooked. This year each one of my friends taught me something new.


The most important thing that I took away from this year was this:


Love. Love those whom you live with. Love those people that smell a little strange when you pass them in the hall. Love. Love the beautiful creation that you may take for granted when you’ve forgotten that there is such thing as sunshine because it’s been raining for 12 days straight. Love your God.


Invest relationally. Take time to be in fellowship with those you care about. Too often we fall into a fast-paced life and we forget what is truly important. Be sure to put those you love first.


This year has been such a blessing. I know that life now calls us in different directions and we may not be reunited for quite some time, but man do we have some amazing memories! When we are reunited, it will be so sweet.