I miss my friends. It's funny how when you're away from your friends, you realize all the more how wonderful they are. How great of a gift each one is. My closest friends I met at Greenville College Freshman year. I cannot explain how much I miss these brothers and sisters of mine that I have gained. It's crazy to look at each of our lives now and see how spread apart we all are, but still there is that magnetic love for eachother that keeps us in touch. What a beautiful thing.
My friend, Shaina is a teacher now in New Jersey. Ali is attending SIUE in Collinsville, IL. Melissa is taking her semeser off school and spending it in her hometown of Alton, IL. Trina is singing and working with all of her heart at Greenville College. Courtney and Amanda are studying with all their might as they are living together in Tenney at Greenville. Mike is writing music to inspire in the practice rooms of Whitlock at the same college. Katie is in Rolla, MO making sandwiches and ministring to those around her. And then there is my new friend, Abby who is a hair dresser in Jefferson City, MO.
They each have such unique, specific roles in my life. Each are so important in their own ways. I love them so much. All but Shaina I'm going to see this weekend. I am so excited. Just to be with them will be the greatest. Just the fact that they are so beautiful, so valuable, and God single handedly chose to put them in my life. To put the girls on my floor on 3rd Burritt East. To place Mike in a seat right beside Katie and I during our Interterm class, and making us group partners on a project. To have Abby and I attend the same bonfire one night with our young adults group-one I came verrry close to skipping out on.
Each are so valuable. Each are so important to me. I have never had such a love for people as these listed here. I have never had girls feel so much like sisters. I have never had such a great guy friend that feels like just as much a brother as my biological brother. I'm so thankful for each of them.
I love how in the body of Christ, He is the head, and we are the limbs. You can't live without a head, and the limbs you can, but it makes things more difficult. The rest of the body can deal with it, but it still suffers. This made me think of my mini body of Christ. The body I know and am closest to. My friends are apart of my little body of Christ. They are my brothers and sisters through Christ's blood. They are not only by best friends, they are also apart of my spiritual family through His blood. I'm so glad that all of my friends are so in love with the same Jesus as I am making this possible for us to be apart of the same family, and to be joint heirs together of Jesus.
Greatest of all, I can't wait to get to heaven. To be singing praises to God, then to look over, and see my best friends singing along with me and all of our brothers and sisters. How great that will be! But for now, we aren't in a place where we can always be together. And we suffer. We have withdrawels. We miss eachother greatly and have a small hole where this specific person took care of a certain place in my life. My mini body of Christ misses his/her absence. They aren't needed because He is the head. He is my eyes, my source of hearing, my mouth, my knowledge. They are simple tools to help me do His work. When they're not here, it makes it harder. I have to work extra hard to get things done, but I can still do it. How awesome it is when God gives us these people back, to help us. To help us minister. To be His hands and feet. To help eachother overcome the things of this world and to be His light in this temprary home.
I love the body of Christ. And I'm so looking forward to see all of my brothers and sisters this weekend at Greenville College that are apart of the same body, the same spiritual family as I.
I am blessed.
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