Friendship

This morning I arrived early at a special regional conference for church..I wanted to sit in the soft seats and if you arrive later you get the folding chairs.. As I sat there, I noticed an old friend had come in and was setting across the chapel. I motioned for her to come sit by me.. I met Francie & her husband Brent when we moved to Phoenix in 1973.. We were young mothers with busy husbands and did so many things together. Her children were teenagers and mine were grade school age. We had holidays together, picnics and many fun times. Then in 1978 they moved up north and we lost touch. I have run into her several times over the years and we always catch up on each others lives. Today as we sat and talked and remembered it was so fun to think back on the great times we had together. Now that I have moved farther north, we are in the same region for special church meetings and so we will probably run into each other more often. She is now the grandmother of 20 and I'm the grandmother of 13..wow the years did go by fast. What fun it was to sit and talk with her and Brent this morning.. Conference was great the all the speakers were wonderful..A great way to start the day. A long lost friend is a wonderful thing to find..

Autumn Friendship

It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still

more so when you are getting older. When we are young, friends

are, like everything else, a matter of course. In our later years we

know what it means to have and appreciate them.

Edward Grieg