a friend

lunch today was with a friend I hadn't sat down and talked with for a while. I knew it'd be picking up right where we left off and it never missed a beat. How is it that friendship works like that? It stinks that in this very busy world we get very little quality time with friends. And if quantity is quality, then a little quality time is really not much at all. But it seems to me that once a relationship is built, once a friendship is forged through good times and hardships, through laughter and tears, through hard work and entertainment, through good quality/quantity time that it survives long breaks and within minutes there is like there was no lapse in time at all since the last time you sat down to lunch.

Our Creator made us this way somehow with the knowledge that we'd be the kind of people who get too busy for our own good and too self-absorbed to realize that we have to have deep relationships. So he did this thing in our souls that connects us so we really can pick up right were we left off. It's almost a reminder of how Jesus' friendship with us works.