Friendships

This weekend I attended a 'moving away' dinner party for my friend Amy who will be relocating with her family to the Dallas area in a very short time. It was certainly a bitter sweet evening. The night out with the girls was a blast - full of funny stories, heartfelt conversation, and just a few "perfect" margaritas (but I'm not saying any names)! It was so much fun to get together with old friends and even meet some new friends, too. But at the end of the evening, it was sad to realize that a friend was saying good-bye.

Ironically, Ian came home from preschool this past week singing a song that I hadn't heard him sing before. And I think I've asked him to sing it half-a-dozen times since then because it's so simple and yet so sincere (and I love how soft and sweet his little voice gets as he sings it).

The lyrics go...

Make new friends, but keep the old
One is silver and the other gold.


A circle is round, it has no end
That’s how long I want to be your friend.

As simple as the message is, it's so very true whether you're in preschool or well into adulthood. The Lord brings specific people into our lives for a purpose. Even though it may seem to be for just a season, when we look back on that person's impact on our lives, we realize that friendship really is precious. Our connections and relationships with others mold who we are and who we aspire to be.

I pray that as my children grow they will encounter friends who impact them in such positive, powerful ways that they can't imagine their friendship circle ever ending. And I pray that they will be such a friend to others, too.