Tuesday, December 30, 2003
new friends
i met a new friend this year, one i never expected at all. at the scrc convention, my mom pointed her out to me and i brushed it off cuz i didn't know the significance. "maybe she'll be an acquaintance," i thought. i finally met her at a random youth ministry meeting that i wasn't planning to go to. i didn't even know it was that night. i just stopped by, cuz i followed michelle after another meeting. then i got "sucked" into it and it's been an awesome journey.
like i said in the last post, i think God's been sending me people this year to help me in my journey. we're all on different paths, in different parts of the path too. some are just starting, some are stumbling, some are in forks in the road. and it's nice when you see someone who's behind you, who looks up to you, not competing or trying to catch up, but just someone who says, "gosh, i want to be where s/he is at-that's a great place to be at". and it's important too, that you always have someone that you look up to, someone who's ahead of you in the journey. and it's especially nice when that person ahead of you isn't just leaving you in their dust. when they actually encourage you to keep going and challenge you to grow.
so back to my new friend... i think of her as one of those people in my life who's ahead of me, someone i strive to be more like. but it's funny, cuz the more and more we get to know each other, i guess i do the same for her too. i didn't realize that i could have such an impact on someone i look up to as well. we haven't had super long conversations and we haven't totally opened up about everything to each other, but the tidbits that we've shared, it's been nice. really nice. i'm glad to start the new year off with her in my life. thanx marianne.
like i said in the last post, i think God's been sending me people this year to help me in my journey. we're all on different paths, in different parts of the path too. some are just starting, some are stumbling, some are in forks in the road. and it's nice when you see someone who's behind you, who looks up to you, not competing or trying to catch up, but just someone who says, "gosh, i want to be where s/he is at-that's a great place to be at". and it's important too, that you always have someone that you look up to, someone who's ahead of you in the journey. and it's especially nice when that person ahead of you isn't just leaving you in their dust. when they actually encourage you to keep going and challenge you to grow.
so back to my new friend... i think of her as one of those people in my life who's ahead of me, someone i strive to be more like. but it's funny, cuz the more and more we get to know each other, i guess i do the same for her too. i didn't realize that i could have such an impact on someone i look up to as well. we haven't had super long conversations and we haven't totally opened up about everything to each other, but the tidbits that we've shared, it's been nice. really nice. i'm glad to start the new year off with her in my life. thanx marianne.
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quotable quotes
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"To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the
greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks
nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid
suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change,
grow, live, and love."
~unknown
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"live a life that others will remember years from now, NOT because it pointed to you but because of how it pointed to the One who made you."
~ Mark Hart, the Bible Geek
"we grow up learning to become self-reliant, but really we need to be God-reliant"
"we could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box"
"never wound hearts that love u, never give them the endless pain, because wounded hearts are like roses that never bloom"
"there comes a time when we have to stop loving someone not because that person has stopped loving us but because we have found out that they'd be happier if we'd let go"
