i don't really like to be in our house by myself, especially with the advance of the serpent kingdom. we haven't seen another one in the house, which isn't to say that they don't exist. i'm just incredibly thankful they're only garter snakes (even though i still can't even stand them).
at any rate, the mister sure has quite the friends! one friend from the military woke up yesterday morning and began his drive from New York City at 6:30am to Maryland to pick up second friend from military. Along the way they had to leave their car and rent a different one for fear of the original breaking down, not to mention a speeding ticket as well! They arrived at our house well past eleven o'clock. it could have been midnight but i was asleep... until they began talking. they weren't loud, in fact, they were being very respectful of biscuit and i sleeping soundly. nonetheless, i laid in bed thinking about how they would journey back home in a little over 24 hours.
they aren't the first friends to have done that for my husband. another friend flew from alaska, rented a car in chicago and drove in for, again, a little over 24 hours.
he is a special man, to this i can attest. but let it be proven by these other men's actions towards him. there is more to this gentleman that i married. he is so much more. and every day that we spend together, even when things get busy and hectic with work and school and child (soon to be children), i know this more deeply. he is more than a gift, a blessing... he is hand-picked by God for me, for our family, for these friends of his, for strangers.
as i lay in bed last night thinking all of these things, i also pondered my friends. those friends that i can never get a hold of, those friends that attempt to call me, too, to no avail. i think of us and if we lived far from one another... would we make a long trek for such a short time? we don't even do it now but it is funny what distance does to the heart, right?
let this not lead you into thinking that i don't have the most splendid of friends. i do. they were also hand-picked by God. we're just different than these gentlemen that i only met today. but whose stories i've heard over and over. they are part of what makes my husband so wonderful, so perfect for me and for them.
praise God for the people in your life that can shape you and chage you and transform you--God through them, whether they know it or not. praise God for making you that person for so many others--whether you know it or now. allow yourself to be a vessel for the Holy Spirit. go as you preach, not preach as you go. fill yourself to overflowing, pour it out into others. embrace God's work in your life--whether you know it or not.
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