Friendships

So it is my third day in Seattle and I am heading back to Pikes Place Market and the original Starbucks. Yesterday at the City Center and Space Needle there was a Folk Life Festival...great surprise. It was sort of like a mini-State Fair with food and demonstrations and booths of hemp clothes (yeah Seattle). I also took the underground tour of Pioneer Square and learned about the beginning of Seattle (almost was named Duwumps).

So I was a typical tourist...but what is great is that I am spending this time with a good friend from Washington, D.C. Amelia and I met at my first call church and have been friends ever since. It was she who came over in the middle of the night to stay with Seth while Sean was born. It was she who actually went on vacation with my family and we had a crazy awful time. How wonderful it is to have friends that, even when we have not seen each other for a long time, we reconnect as if we had lunch yesterday.

How good is our God that we were not created to be alone, but in community, in relationship with others.