The last few weeks have been dear to my heart. Its a good place to be--in a time where you just love. Where each moments seems sweeter than the last and the memories of the day before are hard to remember because today already has so many great ones. Tragic yet beautiful. The kind of time where you don't want to move yet you know in moving you will be met with more great moments. Conversations about nothing special but I feel as if I'm on a rooftop in downtown city overlooking the city scape as the night lights meet the black sky. Its the company and heart that makes is dear to me.
So enough about generalizations right. I could let you in on dozens of great stories. Times where I'm sitting at church thinking, how did God put me at this place with such great people in such a short amount of time? Moments where I'm looking across the table at the girls I'm meeting with that trust me. You can see it in their eyes, their desire to hang out, they wanna be there with me. The blessing that is. Then there is Lucy and Jennifer. Two sweet girls from China that I met on Oct 31. Mark that, I've known them for what, 3 weeks? I feel like I have known them for months, years even.
We met at international coffee hour. I sat down to talk to Jennifer and just a few minutes later, Lucy came up. We exchanged info and that night I was picking them up to go to a Halloween party. It all happened so fast? Then we are out to dinner...they are at my house...I'm helping them with mail...taking them to events...looking for apartments...out to lunch. I mean, we hang out. And you know the feeling of when you hang out with someone the understood "end time," its not like that with them. They just wanna be around me, they wanna be friends. When we make plans, they are committed to being with me until we are done. Its not an "hour" time thing like us Americans often think.
In all the times we have hung out together, I've been able to take them to meet some of my other friends. At the pancake event at the Chi O house, they met Natalie and Kelsey. We had lunch with Kate and Lauren. They met a lot of people at the Halloween party. There is a commonality when we hang out together, if it is the three of us or more. I always laugh when we are together. I mean, I really laugh. The kind of laugh that if you are with me and in public you might be a little embarrassed either for me or because you are with me. They are just so dang funny. Partly because they don't understand everything but also because they have an awesome sense of humor. I love being around. I love that when I'm around there I have not a care in the world except learning and loving. They make things so basic and easy again. I get to be that learner they are. Its fun, its laughter.
Monday I was taking them home and told them I was going to introduce them to some American music next time we hung out. They both said yea, ok. Then a few second later, Lucy said, what did you say...Jennifer bust out laughing, and said "that was my question!! I didn't understand either, but knew Lucy would ask" Hahaha. They are honest, real, hilarious and beginning to be vulnerable with me. They trust me and are so gracious. What great friends :)
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I meant to comment on this a long time ago, but I loved this! It made me so happy for you and made me think about how lucky those girls are to have you. Oh how I miss our days in Athens, but I'm glad to share you with the rest of the world... :)
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