We have some awesome friends!!

So....When Josh and I moved back from Nashvegas...seems like forever ago, We really struggled with the fact that we never really connected with friends here in Spokane. Not even just having friends but connecting with some couples who were not afraid to speak into our lives and call us up and ask how we were doing..and how is your walk with God?

I guess God has been growing us up...but we still missed that connection. Being able to go over to someones house and chill for hours any day of the week and they didn't care and we just would hang out ...not doing anything really, ok I do miss kicking some serious guy BUTT at Halo!! But that's another story. :)
God has shown me over these last few years...that yes He hears me..and yes I will always miss my friends who are far away...but He has new and uncharted territories for Josh and I to walk through and people to meet along the way.
God heard me when I would cry at night...when my heart would break to see my girlfriends...to be connected with someone deep..like I was. It was never an easy thing for me to leave and come home....and God knew that..I just didnt think he did.

God thank you...for My Bethany. Thank you for her wonderful husband Dave. Thank you so much that you made a way for them to come up here earlier this year. She is so uplifting to me..such a blessing in my life. My heart misses her everyday..but you have made ways for us to see one another...and have given us ways in which we can talk with one another..and I cant thank you enough. I know we will see each other again very soon. She is such a sweet spirit and has always been able to help me when I am down or bring a smile to my face..or even come and see me when I lived in someones basement with three boys!! In the midle of nowhere and had no escape from rude boy noises and boy talk and boy stuff!! She was my escape!!! I love you sooo much Bethany!

I cant thank God enough for our wonderful neighbors!! Dave and Holly. Dave has been such a blessing to Josh. He has not had a friend like Dave...Since I don't know when. Josh really needed someone in his life ...maybe just to talk to or vent about me!! :) But God...you knew that too. He still misses the accountability he got with his good friend Tim from Nashville....he talks all the time about the lunch's they would meet up for and how Tim would call him out of the blue and just want to spend some time with him. I know God will fill that void in him. I know He hears Josh too.

My wonderful Holly has been just an overwhelming hug from God. I really didn't think we would get along as well as we do when I first met her. We are so different in so many ways...but so alike also. Its been ages since I had a friend who would be willing to study the Word with me..and I asked her the other day...since we have coffee in the mornings...like two or three times a week...what would you think about having one of those mornings be a devotion time with one another? She was so excited!! and so was I .....cause once again..God heard me. And he sometimes answers in his timing...like I would have loved to see Bethany a little sooner than the six years that had passed.... and I would have really loved to have met Holly when we moved back!!! But God has His timing for a reason.

There is another couple...Tim and Kristee...that my heart breaks to see again. I tear up writing this. But I know God will allow us to meet again. I love you Both so much. You guys don't even know what an influence you were in our lives. We were just babies in Nashville. God placed us in good hands....and you don't know how much Josh and I miss you both. We love you.

Thank you God for our friendships. Thank you so much for your way and your timing...even when we don't understand. Thank you to all of our friends..who have stuck it out with us through good times and bad. We love you all so much.