“i’ll have the paulaner hefe, please.”

last night i met up with a friend i used to live with. we went to the flying saucer by the university. its a place we enjoy together. patrick greeted me with a hug and two books about the appalachian trail he had picked up for 10 cents each. he knew they would excite me.

friendship is funny. there are some friends that you could talk on the phone with for hours but when you see them you don’t really have much to say. there are other friends that you have absolutely nothing to say on the phone but when you are together you could talk for hours! patrick is that kind of friend.

it was 24 oz. for the price of a pint night. patrick got the highland oatmeal porter and i the paulaner hefe. it was two hours of solid life experience driven conversation. it brought me joy to share with my friend my heart, my struggles, my desires, my dreams, my sin, my frustration, and my joys. i am beginning to realize how much you really do have to work to make some friendships happen. i don’t want surface relationships. i want the kind that dig deep. that bring more than just a “hey” every couple weeks. patrick is a great friend. he is a good husband. i am glad he is in my life.

our relationship with god is the same way.  we can’t just sit and wait for something to happen.  just like the woman at the well.  jesus is waiting for us to come to him.  he is waiting patiently for us to move towards him.  too often we want to follow the lord and we sit in our little world thinking everything will be perfect now.  all we have to do is sit and wait.  but that’s not the case.  we have to do our part in going to the father and pursue his heart to experience full life with him.

~ by kareydigh on January 19, 2008.