Yesterday I had lunch with the girls from my Bible Study in Aurora. Jeff calls us the 4 Musketeers!!! We 4 have been a tight group since about 1998! We have been through raising kids, and the pain that comes with letting kids go (our adult kids) the taking care of our aging parents, our parents dying, 2 have lost her spouses already. I guess you call that life!! Anyways, I was just thinking about all our changes and that these girls are the only people on this earth who know EVERYTHING about my life, well along with Jeff, but truly these girls probably know more of my emotions because..... Well just because we are girlfriends!! We've cried together at funerals or trials with or families and we rejoiced together at weddings and the births of our grandchildren. We know each others deepest secrets and our deepest pains, and have been there for each other through them all. We sat in the ER together when one of us thought we were having heart trouble, come to find out it was nothing we laughed all the way home...
But Yesterday when we met it was very different. You see we had always been pretty good to meet once a month or so for all these years, but this last year has been different. One of us lost a mom and is taking care of her dad in her home, another has been working long hours and now has a dog to take care of and is going to start square dancing, the other is babysitting her grandchildren a few days a week, and I have been holding down the ranch enjoying more then ever my country lifestyle :) But YESTERDAY when we got together for the first time in 6 months, there was a "different" about each of us..... As we ate our salad and toasted the new year with sparkling apple cider, we noticed in us, as we filled each other in on our lives, there was a CRAZY kind of peace and calm on everyone of us..... Oh we still had all the same issues in our lives, maybe even worse, one taking total care of her wheelchair bound dad and one facing back surgery this month,,,,,, BUT it was different, we all said we are just going with the flow ONE day at a time... And everyone of us felt we were right where we are suppose to be in God's plan in our lives, no questioning JUST PEACE...
Oh how I thank God for these girls and our 4 hour lunches together, whenever we can do it... We vowed to do it once a month at G's house cause of her daddy. I think we will keep that vow. What an amazing life we've had. Thank you Lord! I think life after 50 is better then before, just sayin'
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