Thursday, September 9, 2010
Still
The lake is so still today that you can see a reflection of the clouds. I walk back from lunch looking at the lake and wishing that I could share this walk with my friends abroad. I wish for one day I could bring people from my most recent past to my present and introduce my life to them. I wish to share the small things: southern food (grits for breakfast!), my commute to work (ahh...I-4 is crowded again), and the grocery store I shop in (yeah for Publix!). I wish to share the big things. I want to introduce them to my Florida friends. These new silly deep thoughtful friends that God is bringing into my life. I want them to share a Sunday tubing down a river and eating Vietnamese takeout while watching a movie or a Saturday night spent swimming and talking late into the night. I want to connect my worlds. This has always been my desire. There are so many places and people I love. I belong to too many worlds.
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Oh, how I can relate! I wish I could be one of those "recent past friends" that could be a part of your new life too! All those things sound like fun. So glad you have new friends and new experiences to enjoy.
I realize that recent past sounds like those friends are 'past'. Not so. But yes, I wish you could be here too. I think you would have really enjoyed tubing down the river with us. Next time you are here (see YOU WILL VISIT ME IN FLORIDA ha.ha.), I will take you and your family tubing down that river. I'm pretty sure you'd like the take out food we got. It's almost as good at Laughing Seed.
Okay, it's a plan! Just have to wait 2 years. =)
I'm very very patient.
Amen, sister!
I'm also hoping to be counted as one of your "recent past friends" that you would invite, hehe :)
I remember thinking along these same lines when I was about to leave APIU..."I wish I could take all these wonderful people with me"...
Miss you, Laura and Julie!
I understand the feeling. And I also loved your comment about Publix. I miss many things about Florida, but one thing that just gets under my skin here is the grocery situation....I just really miss Publix. :)
I feel the same way! I wish all the people I love from all the different phases of my life could be here with me now! I'm glad heaven will be like that!
Tiffany: In Thailand, a good grocery store would make me homesick for the states. I will ship you a Publix.
Mai-Rhea:I've always imagined having a "Facebook" convention. It would simply be a convention where you invited your closest friends and they invited their closest friends. That probably will be heaven!
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