Thoughts of Today

A very long time ago....before marriage, and JUST BEFORE getting engaged....I had an experience that made it so much easier to get engaged and then married.  I was sitting in Sacrament Meeting with my best friend.  Scott and I were very near getting engaged but I was struggling with something I couldn't comprehend.  It may seem trite, or not something that others may value as a true and valid concern, but it was for me!

I had seen many a friend get married - that tends to happen when you don't get married before you are 22, or even maybe 24!  And since I was at the time 26....I had truly seen a lot of friends get married.  I was so happy for them, after all, isn't that what going to college is all about! Hahahahhaha!  Whatever....I valued that great education I received along with the dating scene.

I digress.

So....along with witnessing so many marriages I also was very aware that friendships change....a lot!  This wasn't horrible, but it was, at this particular time in my life, hard to comprehend enjoying.  I didn't see how one man could be my only friend!  I wasn't wired that way.  But I had heard so many friends say that their husband was their best friend, their only friend.  Truthfully, it frightened me!

Fast forward to that Sunday morning in Smyrna, TN.  I have absolutely NO CLUE who the sister was but she bore her testimony about friends and how she was so grateful for them, etc.  I have no idea if that is what she REALLY said, but that is what I got from her testimony.  I could have called Scott right then and there and said I would marry him....only he hadn't asked and I would hate to be SO presumptuous.

And today....I still remain ever so grateful for the friends that I have.  Yes, I can have LOTS of friends and still be friends with my husband.  In fact, I seem to be a better friend to Scott when I have a host of friends surrounding me.  How liberating that day was for me.  Friends truly make my world go round!

Thanks to ALL of my friends!