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Monday, January 21, 2008

My friend kathy

Yesterday afternoon Alana and I met up with my dear friend Kathy.

Kathy was a bridesmaid in my wedding, and someone with whom I meet up periodically for coffee. Usually Starbucks. We spend a couple of hours catching up on each others lives and chatting about numerous life relevancies.

I always end up wondering why we don’t do it more often.

The thing is, I always, without fail, leave my times with Kathy feeling completely refreshed, uplifted, encouraged, and challenged. I do not exaggerate! She embodies such a unique combination of traits, and I have never met anyone quite like her.

She’s the kind of person who listens with such vigor that she often knows exactly where I am headed with a train of thought, and she manages to complete more sentences for me than I complete for myself. I love that kind of energetic, engaging conversation. She makes me feel understood and important. And somehow, she seems to have some wisdom regarding every season of life that I go through. She’s just really full of insight. More than what’s typical in a person. I think God gave her extra doses of it with which to tackle life and relationships.

She’s super down-to-earth, and extremely relateable. That’s one thing I strive to be. I don’t want to be prideful, but rather, to be fully aware of who I am without God’s grace in my life, and consequently, to be a relateable, humble friend to the people in my life. I think there is much to be said for that.

Here we are at Starbucks yesterday, and man was it COLD! Chattanooga has been quite chilly lately, and the way I see it, if it is going to be this freezing, it may as well snow! If I’m going to walk outside and be greeted by 20 or 30 degree wind, I’d far prefer if the landscape was blanketed with white. Oh, well. Such is life in Tennessee. If we get any snow, I will be sure to grab some photos of the three of us in it and you better believe I will be blogging about itSnow makes me SO giddy!