Friends

I talk a lot about my friends, both new and old. I mean, unless you're a hermit, I feel like everybody knows how special friends are. I mean, family is the best. I love my family SO MUCH, but they don't choose you, you just kind of get stuck with them. And while C.S. Lewis makes the point that even your friendships are chosen for you by God, (and I wholeheartedly believe that to be true,) at the same time, we do choose our friends. We make decisions all the time that majorly affect the people who become our closest friends. We didn't make any decisions to be in our families, that was all God. Not to say that our friendships aren't all because of God too, but... I already addressed this (I hope) sufficiently.

Anyway, I'll give an example. I've talked about Abby several times. She's my Bible Study leader, and she discipled me this past semester. Abby is a really good friend of mine. We're pretty different, but we're also incredibly similar. But how I became friends with Abby is that I went to a Navs Welcome Week thing, and met her there. And we talked, And I don't know, at first, I didn't quite know what to make of her. But I did know that she was probably going to be leading my Bible Study because of what dorm I lived in. If I had decided to live in a different dorm, then she wouldn't have been my Bible Study leader. We wouldn't have gotten to know each other the way we did. And while I dearly love Melissa, (the other EDGE girl, and the leader of the other freshman girl B-Stud), I think one of the reasons I kept coming was because Abby was so different from me, whereas I feel like Melissa and I, at least in some more obvious ways, are more similar. Not that being similar or different to me is good or bad, but for whatever reason, I really wanted to get to know Abby because she was different from me. But anyway, the decisions I made, like choosing to live in my particular dorm, and choosing to go to Bible Study every week helped lead me to becoming friends with Abby. And of course, those are only the choices on my side of the process. Abby made choices that led us to becoming friends, too.

But anyway, in not very long, I'm headed to STP. And I honestly believe that choices I've already made are going to have an effect on the friends I'll come to have at STP. And while I'm TERRIFIED that I won't actually make any friends while I'm there, I also know that surely God has brought someone to STP who I'll be friends with by the end of the summer.

So yeah. That's my little STP freak out for the day.

Talk to you later!
Becca

OH! Wait! One last thing. A quick passage from the Old Testament about friendship.
"Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up. Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone? And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart."
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12