My Story on Kindred Spirits

Friendship:

In elementary school I had a best friend.  We met on the first day of school in the 1st grade wearing matching sun dresses and sandals.  From that day forward we were inseparable.  Our families became part of each others.  I remember the summer as teenagers spending more time at her house than my own.  I'd go spend the night or the weekend and end up staying for a couple of weeks. (seeing my parents off and all)

In high school things go tricky as other people came into our lives and we started changing but we remained on some level best friends.  After high school we attended each other's weddings, I was pregnant with my second child at her wedding. Shortly after that things changed and our friendship was attacked.  Life began, busyness too over and many difference came into the picture on how we viewed life and things, eventually we drifted apart and have never been the same since.  (We are "friends" on Facebook)

In my adult life there were several years I  looked for someone to fill that void.  Always getting disappointed or hurt, and never lasting.  Finally after my divorce and hard times, I was living in a small town in Texas when a best and only friend was placed in my life.  I took care of kids during the day while she was at work.  (had my own in home day care)  We we always taking during at being at each other's house and cooking, sharing meals and doing activities with the kids together.  We were there for one another during some rough times.  Looking back was brought into my life for that very purpose I think, the hard times, that troubled season in my life that I found myself in at that time.

Now I'm 40 years old and have settled on the fact that I won't have that "one" very best friend again.  I will have many and that God is my life and He has moved into that void that I had many years ago.  He has blessed me with a wonderful mentor over the last five years.  He also have blessed me with not one, but several kindred spirits in my life to meet me where I am at in that time going on in my life.  I have some that I'm close with because we are learning to love the difficult people in our lives, others raising teenagers...etc.

I think it has been more of a blessing in my life to have many kindred spirits in my life that the Lord has crossed my path with than having just that one because really that "one" needs to be and is the Holy Spirit.

Katrina