Old Friends and New Ones

The trip to Chicago is coming to an close. I will write a blog about it when I get home.

I dunno. Today, I caught up with one of my close friends from back home. It was really good. We joked around and talked about each others lives for a while. Then we started talking about how good it will be one day when we are at each others weddings, and what an indescribable day it will be. So I am in Chiago now, with a bunch of new friends. I just think it is so awesome how God puts people in your life that you grow up with, you come to love as brothers and sisters, and then one day you graduate high school and begin the next chapter of your life and those friends become the "old friends" and all of a sudden you are surrounded with "new friends". Now I don't really like either of those terms, but today, I reconnected with an "old friend". After we finished talking, I went outside to the frigid city air. It was 25 degrees out and I didn't have a coat, but it didn't matter. I looked up at the sky and just thanked God for the people He has put in my life, old and new.

I really love those moments. And I love how whoever is reading this can appreciate what I am talking about because it is a thing that all humans expereince. What amazes me is that every day I am away from my old friends, I appreciate them more. The memories we made together are that much more special.

So I don't really have a point to this blog. I just want you to appreciate the people God has put in your life, and realize how good God is.

That all,


from the windy city,

JN