fridays with my friends.

I love Fridays. Every week V and I go to my friend Ruth's house. So does my friend Lori Ann and my friend Grace and her three children. Ruth makes us coffee with her french press and homemade pastries without fail every week. The kids run around and play. Sometimes Violet laughs at the kids playing, sometimes she sleeps on Ruth's bed, sometimes she cries. Ruth is the most relaxed, peaceful, inviting hostess...not minding at all that we make it look like a tornado has blown through!

We get together and talk. We pray and and encourage each other. I feel I can say anything and never be judged. I feel I can speak openly as they never wear masks over their own lives. We are reading through a book together on changing and growing as Christians. We usually discuss what we are learning in our reading...but there is always time for deviation!!

I feel so rich having these friends...they truly make me want to walk with God as I see the peace and fulfillment they have with Christ. Some seasons God gives us close girlfriends and sometimes not. Since I've been married I haven't had close married friends like this...and there will probably seasons in my future where I will not be blessed like this. I hope that my contentment is first in God in times of rich friendship and times where I am lonely. I thank Him for this and for the times I've had without close friends because He has faithfully used both circumstances to deepen my relationship with Him.



Lori Ann stylin' in her glasses.














Gracie-Rae!





















Our fearless and faithful host!























Eros will have naked bodies; friendship naked personalities. -C.S. Lewis