No greater love...

* I'm interrupting my financial series to post this thought the Lord gave me tonight.

Tonight I found myself telling a good friend of mine who no longer lives in Birmingham that I think I miss her more than she actually misses me. It was a reminder to me that a year had passed since I had seen this friend and we only live an hour away from each other. But with babies and new jobs, time just passed us by and neither one of us made it a top priority to visit the other one.

So it has me thinking about my group of friends. My core group is often how I refer to them when speaking to other people. I think some people were getting their feelings hurt when I would say I had dinner last night with my girlfriends as if the young lady that I was telling that to wasn't my girlfriend (which was def. not the case). So I had to come up with another way to refer to them to make it clear that this is a special group. One that I have been associated with almost from the beginning of when I started going to Church of the Highlands. It's a group of friends that I went through some intense small groups where we laughed, cried and learned together in the Lord. We were in each other's weddings, there for each other when babies were born and prayed for each other when we walked through hard times.

But the interesting thing about these friends which makes them my core is that they are always here when I need them. We don't talk, email or text on a daily basis. Some of them, I don't even see for months. But when someone has a baby, gets married or is sick - there they are with Zoe's roll ups for four in hand and a child in the other knocking at your door. I think tonight reminded me how much I miss seeing them. With busy schedules, we can't stay up till 1 in the morning talking about life and then ordering pizza at midnight. Those days are past. I can't long for them. But what we have is so much sweeter now - it's the unmovable faithfulness of a true friend. It never stops. It's always there for you when you need it. That is something worth holding onto.

To my core group: you know who you are. Where would I be without you? Life has changed so much since we started walking together but I'm thankful that even though we are in different places, we still have the same destination. Love you girls!