First Best Friend

The first friend I ever made in life was Bible Study Girl. She was my best friend in fact, and the only person I ever wanted to play with outside of my cousins. I trusted her and still do trust her with my life because, in my eyes, she is truth personified. She protected me and even beat someone up who tried to bully me one time. Anyone who knows me will know that I love my sister with everything that is in me.

She took me on my first date, gets all of my jokes, and without trying makes me feel comfortable being me. She’s my sounding board and so much more that it’d take longer than this blog post to document everything she is. I am so appreciative of her. If you follow the website diligently, you will have read that one of the most difficult times in my life was when she and I had the biggest falling out we’ve ever had. I felt alone and like I’d lost the one person that made me feel sane in this world outside of my wife and mother. The burden of our disagreement weighed heavily on me and I was unable to move. “What have I done to deserve this God?” is what I asked. “Is doing what I felt led to do by You going to cost me one of my most precious relationships?”

The long and short answer is no. What God intended was not to take away what had been safe for me, but once more He was calling for me to trust the safety that was always in Him. He was calling for me to know that He would restore and rebuild our relationship in his image. We’d been needing restoration for longer than we were aware of. I’d never attempted to look at our bond through His eyes. He placed in us great talents that needed to be reawakened and restructured so His name would get the glory.

Often we find a way to use our talents in ways that please the flesh and lack any resemblance of the God who bestowed them upon us. He wanted us to be bigger and better. He placed in her a situation that required me to be someone completely different than I’d ever been to her. The blog was born and then the podcast. All because God’s plan for us was so mighty that He had to shake us up a bit. When the seasons change in our lives and relationships begin to change, it can be scary. The one thing I know in all of this is that God will use whatever He has to grow us. He is the friend who will never leave and the best friend to have through everything. Thank you, God for allowing me to have a servant as faithful and giving as the one I call big sister. #wepreach

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