-Today I had coffee with a good friend of mine. She is an adult. In fact her son is only a few years older than me and recently got married. But she is my friend. Normally we are joined by another friend, who was on staff at my school. These woman are at different stages in their lives than I. They have had gone through their high school and college days already, but I consider them my close friends. Why? They are beyond wise and understanding. They are easy to talk too, worth a thousand laughs, and completely filled with love. Like these two great woman, I have had a numerous people who have greatly influenced my life. In fact, my graduation speech was basically one big "Thank You" note to all of them. If I ever find that speech I'll post it. These people have steered me in the right direction, sent prayers of love my way, and given me priceless advice.
-The other night I went to my sisters volleyball game. It was a regional game so a lot of students showed up to cheer the team on. I haven't been up to FCS in a few weeks, so I really hadn't seen many high school friends in a while. I sat in the middle of them, all in the stands, laughing and cheering on the girls on the court. At one moment I was silent and just took everything in. I was sitting next to Ben and Adam. Next to them was Brandon and Alex, and in a bench above us Steven sat. We all just laughed and made dumb jokes. Those days I miss, but at that moment no one cared about the amount of time that had passed since we last saw each other. We just had a good time.
-Last week I was sitting on my Mac, mindlessly. Suddenly I heard the "ding". I had a facebook chat message. I looked down to see David had messaged me. We sat for a while, discussing what the last week had brought the two of us. After he logged off, it was almost surreal to think, this time last year we weren't able to talk, and here we were talking about college!
-On Monday I had a regular family I babysit for call me. The mom had changed her hours at work and needed me to start coming over on Thursdays to get the kids off to school. That same day another regular family asked me to start coming over 6 hours a week to do some special games with her child to help socialize him. Then on Tuesday a family friend called me asking if I could come hang out with the kids 10 hours a week.As if that wasn't enough to get on the calendar I had to still keep in mind my regular jobs I already have on Tuesday/Thursday and then Friday's with my niece. At on point I was approaching a break down. How was I going to do this all? And then it dawned on me, make it work! These families trust me enough to get the job done, why am I freaking out about it?
Now how does this all come together? Well, I am a huge Casting Crowns fan! Recently their latest album came out so I logged into iTunes right away! This may be my new favorite song!
While listening to this song I thought of a few friends that don't have their dads in their life. Because they have accepted Christ into their lives, they have turned out to be great Godly, young woman of God. But the fact still remains, their Fathers are not around. It made me say a little prayer that I am blessed enough to have such a great Daddy in my life. Yes, I am 19 and referred to my father as Daddy. I once read this quote:
"Anyone can be a Father, it takes a special man to be a Daddy"
After saying a little pray in thanks for my daddy, it made me realize how big I have been blessed. All these great people in my life, watching me grow and blessing me with such lessons. I am forever grateful for them and everything they through my way ; good, bad, or ugly.
I am blessed. I am blessed. I am blessed. I am blessed. I am blessed. I am blessed. I am blessed.
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