| December 4, 2001 2:30 AM (abby's thoughts) Yups, my thoughts again. Sarah has lots of thoughts too. She's just more studious than I am and does her work instead of playing with this website. =) Today I was reminded what an amazing gift friends are. God totally knew when He gave us friends to encourage us and challenge us and just make us smile. Like today, Jessie randomly called me on the phone and that made me really happy because I love getting random phone calls. Since online chatting is so prevalent now, the phone doesn't get used as much but I think I like phone calls better because they're more personal. You know when someone calls you that they wanted to give you their full attention. With online chatting, people who talk to you are often talking to 5 or more other people at the same time. Not that I don't like chatting online cuz I do. I love it. It's a great way to catch up with people that you don't see very often. It's just that the phone somehow adds a more personal and thoughtful touch. I think that's why it made me so happy when Jessie called me just to say hi. Usually I only get phone calls when people need to ask me a specific question or it's my mother calling. =) But yeah, even though Jessie called me mostly cuz cable was down, it was still nice and it still made me smile. =) Anyways, back to the friends thing...I think i take for granted sometimes that friends are a gift from God. They are another amazing blessing that God bestows upon us because He loves us. He knows us so well. He knew that we would need special people in our lives to spur us on and to keep us accountable and to encourage us and make us smile. We have a God who knows us intimately. And He's been here on earth. He knows what it's like to have friends and the need for friends. He had His own inner circle here on earth. In HBS last Friday, we read the passage of Jesus praying in Gethsemane (i have other thoughts about that passage but i'll post them some other time...they're from this Bible study that I went to and it was awesome...). Wow, these are very disjointed thoughts. Anyways, I think my point was that I find it so amazing that we have a God who knows us intimately and chooses to bless us with friends. =) Not an extremely profound or even new thought, but it was a good reminder for me today. =) |