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| Bear Creek Lodge Grayling, MI Sisters-in-Fellowship
This is what our annual reunion holds dear to me....fellowship. Face to face interaction with women with whom I share the common bond of love for my Savior and dedication to His ways.
When we see each other after a year's separation, my heart quite literally sings with joy! To look upon the face of each of you gives my soul a kind of joy with which none other can quite compare.
I love my family and I know they love me; I love my church family and again, I know they love me. The bond I share with each of you is something above and beyond the bonds of family or church....I'm not quite sure I know how to adequately describe it. It is not that I love you MORE than my family, of course I do not. It is that we depend on each other; we share our joys and sorrows on a level that transcends some of our other connections.
Each of you support me in a way that most of my 'local' friends do not or cannot. I open my heart to you; I pour out my pain and troubles and you simply reach out to lift me up. You pray for me without judgment or question. Even if your advice is admonishing in nature, it is given with nothing but pure love. In that way, each of you grow me in my spirit as I walk my path here.
The first look after a year is completely joyful and the last look is sad and filled with longing for that next 'first look'. From the moment we part until the time I see your face again, my heart is filled with the love we shared and the joyful memories we made, the profound ways in which we shared our love for each other and for our Lord.
As the time between us slips into a memory, I think of those hours spent talking and sharing what the Lord is doing in each of our lives. I look at the pictures of each of you and remember special moments spent with each of you during our time together. When all is said and done, the few days together give my heart comfort and encouragement for each of the days that pass before I see you again.
Every experience is treasured in my heart; every word is cuddled in my spirit....even the occasional tense words, because we work through our disagreements with love. That's what friends do, and we are friends! Your words are the anointing oil that soothes my troubled heart and quiets my lonely spirit....the anointing oil of peace.
How good and pleasant it is
when God’s people live together in unity!
It is like precious oil poured on the head,
running down on the beard, running down on Aaron’s beard, down on the collar of his robe.
It is as if the dew of Hermon
were falling on Mount Zion. For there the Lord bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.
Psalms 133:1-3 (TNIV)
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9 comments:
dear diane...when i first came here to your post, i started to read without looking to see who had written it...i wanted to guess who it was and as i read down the beautiful lines, i thought it was either you or miss patty who had written it...and so it was a tie!..but you know sweet diane that your words as they echo into and out of my heart are surely the ones that all of us feel...what a wonderful wonderful and godly friendship we share and what a gift has been given to us from the lord!!!god bless you dear sister!love terry
It is a joy and a delight to call you my sisters....sweet communion. I like Terry was guessing between you and Pat. :) love you! BTW...do you think you could go in and make the font lighter? its kind of difficult to read....
Cheryl, I changed it but I couldn't get it to do what I wanted. Maybe this will at least be easier to read. Sorry about that!
Di
I sure do miss you girlfriend and sister of my heart! What a blessing you are!
First of all, I'm very flattered that someone would think I may have written this!
Isn't our fellowship a big beautiful gift with a fancy bow on top? Then...you take that bow off and the gift is more beautiful then the bow! Now that's a gift!
I love you my sweet sis and already anticipate the next time we shall all be together again!
We did have wonderful fellowship in the cozy rather large cabin. Just imagine what warm memories we will have for years to come. You are a treasure, Diane.
Okay - I was going back and forth too - wondering who was writing. :) God is certainly good in that He has blessed us with each other. There are no words....
God bless you sister
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