Dear Caroline,
When we lived in my college town once upon a time, we
attended this amazing Catholic Church with an Irish priest and a nice little
circle of friends. I’ll admit maintaining friendships over a distance isn’t
easy. And even though we were busy, we weren’t that busy.
When we moved here, I think Thomas especially, wanted a new
start and meet new people. We’ve been kind of homebodies.
Yesterday we were having a lazy Sunday. We started laundry
and were marathoning the third season of The Office. Thomas was working on
homework, and I was happily not doing lesson plans as we are off for
Thanksgiving Break. I washed towels and for some reason they did not dry. We
were planning on going to lunch, but we wanted to wait until after showers
obviously. Thomas was getting progressively more frustrated.
Finally, the towels were ready and we headed out the door.
We walked into the restaurant and imagine our surprise when we ran into some of
our church friends from Valdosta. It was literally crazy the craziest of
coincidences. It was like we picked up right where we left off. We caught up.
Spent time. Shared stories. Visited. It
was crazy that it felt like no time had passed. Except that it has. Their son
is now five and in kindergarten!
Sometimes I forget how amazing our God is. I pray all the
time for things that are on my heart. But the one thing I haven’t even thought
to ask for was meaningful friendships. This year has been truly a roller
coaster. We’ve moved and said goodbye. And it was nice to say hello. God knew
we needed this for our spirit and it was so nice to have the opportunity to see
some of our friends. Everything that went wrong that morning led us to be in
the right place and the right time. We serve an awesome God who knew exactly
what we needed and what we wanted. We are really in a good place. We are ready
for the holidays and to share them with our friends and family. We’re only
missing you, baby girl. You are exactly what we want and need to make our
family complete.
Love Always
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