Today, I dropped in on my dear friends from my original church, the vicar and his wife (he did the sermon at my wedding too) who have moved to the same town as CBC's parents live in. They recently moved there and I decided to spontaneously drop in to surprise them. Oh how lovely it was to see them! There really is nothing like having true and kind and loving friends who have no airs and graces, simple, kind folk who appreciate you for who you are, no matter how annoying you can be. To my delight, ALL their family were there who I know, their daughter who also lives in that town and their son and his wife and children, the son who I haven't seen for about 10 years. I sat with them as they ate their dinner (they asked me to join them but I declined...well, except for a slice of homemade cheese cake for dessert!). It was SO nice to be in their house. As I chatted to Jane, I told her about my church situation, saying that although I am going to the Baptist church, I still wasn't 100% certain it was my forever church. And to my great surprise and not delight, as such, but an appreciation of her understanding my exact predicament, she told me they feel similarly about churches since they have moved. They are going between churches and whilst they like the two churches they have been going to, they still haven't felt ready to make a total commitment and choose a church. She said, "It's hard when you've been in a lovely church community, to move somewhere else. It's very hard to compare it." I said to her, "Thank you for understanding and telling me that because I just felt that I was just being rubbish," and she gave me a hug and said she totally understood what I was feeling and hoped that both of us might be ready to make a commitment and know where we should be.
It is so easy to be with her and her husband,my former vicar. When I see some friends after not seeing them for a while, it is often a bit awkward or hard to catch up but I never feel that with them. It just makes me realise the value of true and sincere friends. And these are friends who are 80 and late 50's. One thing I love about being an adult is that you can be friends easily with people who are such different ages to you and that's fine and good. At an age when I don't make lots of new friends or relationships and lots of friendships are sort of lost (I wrote about it in this POST), it is so lovely to have friends who I can now see every time I come to Northumberland, people who are so dear to me despite the fact we haven't lived in the same town for almost 12 years now.
I am thankful for the friendships I have.
xx
It is so easy to be with her and her husband,my former vicar. When I see some friends after not seeing them for a while, it is often a bit awkward or hard to catch up but I never feel that with them. It just makes me realise the value of true and sincere friends. And these are friends who are 80 and late 50's. One thing I love about being an adult is that you can be friends easily with people who are such different ages to you and that's fine and good. At an age when I don't make lots of new friends or relationships and lots of friendships are sort of lost (I wrote about it in this POST), it is so lovely to have friends who I can now see every time I come to Northumberland, people who are so dear to me despite the fact we haven't lived in the same town for almost 12 years now.
I am thankful for the friendships I have.
xx