New Friends Old Friends
/ Autumn McKenzie JacksonNational New Friends, Old Friends Week
This week is National New Friends, Old Friends Week. How wonderful because friendship is at the top of my list of things to celebrate! I, literally, would not have survived the past several of years without my friends. Both new and old have coalesced to be the perfect safeguard for my mind, heart, and soul. I am forever grateful.
To my old friends:
You met me and I you. You know me and I you. We seek each other’s company by choice. We encourage each other. When we are apart we miss each other. When we are together, time apart seems irrelevant.
To my new friends:
Thank you for the moment in which we found common ground and the opportunity to share. It is easy to rush by moments like these and I appreciate you taking the time to connect.
To friends I have yet to make:
Where our lives meet, may there be a pause and a connection that forever changes each other’s existence.
I have met some truly outstanding individuals that I am proud to call my friends. I am but a reflection of the friends that surround me.
All of my senses get a treat as I take in the magnificence of God that is most evident for me in water, especially oceans
I have had to do all sorts of learning, relearning, and unlearning during my life journey. My goal has been to get to some level of proficiency, ease, and mastery with whatever I am doing.
I am now
I have experienced the peace of God that passes understanding. It is because of that peace that I am walking bolder in my faith.
The last post I wrote was nearly two years ago. I have been grieving, slaying giants, raising champions, and growing in faith.