Friends are a great thing, a gift from God. In a recent blog I wrote about the many new friends I’ve gained through a 5-year continuing education experience at St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City. Through these many new friends I’ve experienced God’s grace, God’s undeserved or unmerited love. I am grateful and hope that people like Jerry and Keith will remain friends, my friends and with others, for a lifetime.
Yesterday I spent a lot of time with a life-long friend, a friend from the neighborhood we grew up in together in St. Louis. Lifelong friends are an amazing gift in our lives. While Danny, his twin sons and me spent the day mostly at Hammons Field, the Springfield Cardinals ballpark here, we covered a lot of old and new ground (bad pun, sorry). We reminisced about old memories and made new ones.
Life is about old memories and creating new ones, isn’t it? And God is right in the middle of them as we open our lives to God. I encourage you and me to keep the doors open and then watch the experiences, the memories that unfold before our very eyes.
