My Debt is Great

I haven't posted anything in so long.  I'm so behind that I don't even know where to start to get back on track.  I finally got pictures from back in April from our trip to Reno but that hasn't even been sorted through either!  I just wanted to take a moment though and write about something that's been on my mind.  Friendship!  

I feel like one of the luckiest people on the planet.  I am not without friends who feel and really are like sisters.  All my life in every different faze, I've had one or two friends I could call on. In this faze however there are so many many women I can call on.  I don't know why and I'm not going to question why, I'm am just going to be so grateful that I have them.  I talked with one such sister today over text and while we texted one another I cried.  The other day I received a kiss on the cheek from another sister and it felt so much like a kiss from my own mother that again....I cried.  On a separate day I visited with again a different sister about a deep concern of mine and was comforted in her compassion.  Last week I sat in the home of a fourth sister and shared in our sisterhood, doing nothing but sharing a few kind words with each other.  A fifth sister I shared a  message back and forth on Facebook but it was so lovely that it warmed me through and through. A few of those examples I consider to be some of my closest friends BUT I could go on and tell you about the sweet sisters I serve with every Tuesday morning and the sister I share my church calling with or the sister I had lunch with just the other day!  That's not even telling you about the group of sisters I have dinner with once a month! 

Never in my life have I been so richly blessed with sisterhood or have I and I've just not seen it well enough?  On Sunday I watched a sister from a distance that I don't know well but feel such a kinship toward and thought then that I could go to her for ANYTHING!  These sisters bring about that feeling that knots in your throat and makes your eyes leak!.  I realized while texting earlier this evening just how much these women mean to me and just how special these relationships are.  No they don't compare or replace my family relationships they just add to them.  They just add to me and who I am as a daughter of my Heavenly Father.  I'm not lucky.  This is the Lords doing and I fully recognize Him in this.  I'm so blessed to stand beside these fine women and glean from the unique qualities the Lord blessed them with.  Oh I'm so thankful for them.  I'm thankful for the tears and laughter, the madness and smiles, the heartache and heart swells.  I'm thankful for their spirits and who they are as daughters of God. I have much much to repay!