A Face-to-Face Visit
Today I had the pleasure of a face-to-face visit over delicious coffee with a friend I hadn't seen in 13 years. I almost said that I 'reconnected' with a friend...but thanks to modern technology, we were never really disconnected. I just moved 60 miles away. But we have kept track of the big events, the silly things, the sadness and the successes in each other's lives. A couple of things that stuck me as I drove away from our two-hour visit... I realized that it's great to have godly friends. We shared prayer requests for the things that are going on in our lives now and we talked about God's faithfulness and mercy over the things that have happened since we last talked. We talked about what's going on in the world and the second coming of Christ. We talked about death and spending eternity with Jesus. We talked about our kids and the challenge of parenting. We talked about careers and the opportunity to be a witness for...