This picture was taken over my birthday weekend and when I really sit back and think about it, I am astonished.
These three women all have given me the gift of true friendship over the years .... starting with Amy, (in the middle), one of my closest childhood friends. We probably celebrated every single birthday together from 1st to 12th grade. Then there is Brooke on the far left, whom I met the first week of college and became a fast and extremely faithful friend. On the far right is Shannon. Our friendship began right after college and has taken us through just about a decade of fabulous adventures, lows, highs and everything in between.
And would you believe this - they ALL live in Chattanooga right now. It's not like this is Chicago, or Washington D.C., or some other places where gajillions of people live. Nope, the population here doesn't even reach 200,000 and yet somehow, we've all ended up here.
Most of the time I think I take it for granted that they are all here, right now, but every now and then I step back and really think about how I never could have planned this myself, wouldn't have even occurred to me, and I realize how pointless it is to worry, strive or try to manipulate my future to turn out just how I want it to. Seems to me God has it pretty well under control and is doing far a better job than I could ever do myself.
