My friend Shawn truly is my brother in Christ. To be in his presence is to learn about God. We always talk about faith, theology, doctrine, morality, and our love for the Catholic Church.I've only know him a year, and yet I feel like I've known him for a lifetime. I can't imagine my life without his friendship. I've learned so much from him.
Our hearts have the same cry, it seems. We both have a tendency to grow impatient as we worry about finding our future spouses. Back and forth we will bounce, between hope and despair. As I fall down, he picks me up. When he starts to fall, I grab a hold of him.
But ultimately, we do put our trust in God, and we trudge on, getting a bit better with each passing day. Thank you, God, for the true friend that is Shawn!Last week was his last, living in my town. I am thankful that last week I got a chance to serve him breakfast after daily Mass, that his dove got to be reunited briefly with the dove family that is here, and that I had the opportunity to welcome him in when he unexpectedly stopped by for a visit.
I will miss seeing him and his silly brown Crocs, but I'm sure we'll keep in touch. When you have a friendship like this, you know it will last through eternity.This is a picture of us in my awesomely-huge backyard (that takes me 1.5 hours to mow). It wasn't planned that we happened to wear the same color scheme that day. Gosh, even our shoes matched!
