Day 25: Household of Faith

In the midst of the insanity that is my life now, it was a great reprieve to put everything on hold for just a bit. For a good six odd hours, all my anxieties, my incessant worries and concerns, not to mention the absurdly long to-do list I really need to tackle were- thankfully- relegated into some strange recess of my brain and disallowed to surface. I had the chance to spend sometime with my sunday school girls at Angie's place (Angie's our former sunday school teacher) for a long overdue get together; no less greatly urged by the fact one of our number is going to leave us for the desert state for a good two years.

These are girls that have seen me grow, seen me mature and seen me through some of the most crazy stuff life has thrown me. They have kept the faith, gone the distance and loved me regardless. As friends, as sisters, as confidantes, we have weathered school pressures, work uncertainties and doubts; we have closed ranks when it was needed and given space when the situation warranted for it- lovingly praying and caring from afar. We have seen each other through relationship ups and downs; celebrated and mourned, cheered and rebuked, uplift and encourage each other; we've worried together, shared enough secrets to fill a library twice over and been the faithful refuge from life's occasional raging tempest.

Its rather sobering, I guess, to think back at the journey that we all have shared. To see how far we have each come and to realise how far we each have to go. And the scary reality that it may be a while before we get to revel in the simplicity of a gathering such as today where we cooked, baked, ate, laughed, played games and told stories, shared tender moments and totally out-of-whacked ones.

E, all the best. Have a safe flight, a great experience and we'll send you the la-lache book when the time calls for it. :) And happy birthday TC: thanks for allowing us to invade your life, your home and your birthday. Angie, thanks for all that you have been to me, to us, over the years... you have truly been a blessing. To the rest of the girls: Thanks for all that you have been to me over the years, don't know how I'd have survived it all without you all. To the three little ones, love you loads. Enough said.