reconnected

i'd never thought i'd say this, but i'm grateful for facebook, and ultimately to God.

at first when facebook was catching on, everyone was extolling the virtues of facebook, accrediting to it the rediscovery of old friends. i have to admit i was jaded. with all the moving that i've done across state lines and across international borders in the past 12 years, i could barely remember the full names of some of my friends. there would be no way for me to reconnect with old friends. i'd have to make due with just adding present ones. or so i thought.

on a whim yesterday i decided to search for the names of some of my dearest friends from my youth. just for the heck of it. just to see if by any chance, they'd jumped on the bandwagon too. the friends that made such a lasting impact that i actually remembered their full names. so i actually found a few from my junior high!

but that's not the most extraordinary thing. i found my best friend from grade 3!!! grade THREE! i've always wished that i would still have friends that i've known from childhood, and now i'm reconnected to my best friend from grade 3! i haven't seen her or talked to her, or had contact with her in a decade at least. i'm just so excited and so giddy and just....jubilant.

this means so much to me. i can't even verbalize it. this is one of the things that i've desired the most. there were points in my life when we were moving around that i really resented God for tearing me away from my friends. i came to terms with it when i recognizing His sovereignty in everything, and now He's brought me back to my friends.

life is sweet.