July 20, 2009

• Happy Birthday, my dearest, bestestest friend in the whole world!

   

  She’s the one standing up. 

  I love you, dear Lois, for reasons too numerous to list exhaustively (and besides, we’d all BE exhausted!) but I’ll name a few.

  I love that you make me laugh.  We always have so much to talk about, and always, always, I can be sure of at least one good laugh, even in a brief phone call, or even in a chat.  We just understand one another so well, it doesn’t take much to set me off.  I’m sure everyone else thinks we’re insane (do you think they’re right??  Naaaaaaaaaah!)

  I love that you make me think.  Often, you see things from just that much of a different perspective that I can’t assume you’ll endorse my every thought or position.  I need to be able to argue it out with you, or I don’t stand a chance of convincing you of my (the right!!) way of seeing things.

  I love that we have such a long history – 20, no, nearly 30 years now. Despite the fact that you keep moving further away from us, we’ve managed to maintain this wonderful friendship for longer than I have with any other friend since my adulthood.  I have other dear friends, of course, and some are just no longer around, but you have been around, and have been deeply in my heart, for a very long time. I like that kind of history.

  I love that we share our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.  Even more, I love that we share a Reformed perspective.  I know others may wonder why that’s important, but I know you know.  I love that. 

  I could go on.  For almost everything that we’ve shared over the years, I could come up with an “I love you,” but that’d probably get boring. So, I’ll just finish by saying, “I love you, and I thank God for you, over and over and over again!”

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