It's the cheesiest.

I'm feeling a little sentimental today. Let's face it. I feel sentimental pretty much everyday. Today, however, I think it came in an extra large dose.

My oldest and best friend moved an hour away a couple of weeks ago. An hour may not seem like much, but when you're as busy as we are, it may as well be an eternity. I was able to talk Steph into coming back to the big G'ville this weekend, so we could hang out.

Tonight was beautiful. We ate at our favorite Mexican restaurant. We gathered up the Roomie after dinner and went to Target. We stayed in the jommie section for an inordinate amount of time. On our way to the special school supply section (see earlier posts to learn of my insane love of the school supplies), I realized I needed dryer sheets. Roomie and Steph went on, and I went in search of Gain Apple Mango Tango dryer sheets of which they had none.

As I was walking down the aisle back toward the school supply section, I could see Roomie and Steph. It was like tunnel vision right towards them. It reminded me of those scenes in movies where people focus in on the thing they've been searching after for so long. Cheesey, I know, but in that moment my heart was so full. I had these two amazing friends with me. Friends who would joke about how the world would be horrible if we all had rhyming names like Amelia Bedelia, or if my father were in fact Robert Redford.

Having friends is such a goodness, and it's not one that I entirely deserve. Being known is such a privilege. To think that now we only know in part, and one day we'll know in full - not just about ourselves, or each other, but about God. It's heart warming, and cheesey, and saccharine, but it's truth which makes it entirely beautiful.

Steph is in the purple shirt in the photo above.