Residual Pizza

I thought and though and thought what to write this next blog about. I truly don’t want this to become a place where I get fulfilled by just slapping words down and making people laugh. This blog was a gift given to me and I often have to re-read my “About this Blog.” Over there… see it just to the right. To remind myself it was intended to be a celebration of the blessings God has placed in my life. Lately I have noticed that my blogs are more of and edifying process of my daily shortcomings than his blessings in my life. (Well, I guess they go hand in hand) He always seems to turn my faults in to blessings, when I am following him, that is.

I had the most wonderful evening with my friends, eating pizza and watching a movie, which I probably should have thought twice before suggesting. Isn’t it interesting how our minds only remember the good parts of movies and totally forget the ten minuet montage of inappropriateness we shouldn’t be subjecting ourselves or our friends to? Lucky it was just us girls this time, and we could giggle and cover our eyes, in a very mature fashion I might add.

Throughout the evening I just kept thinking to myself “where’s the story in this wonderfulness of fellowship? I want to share this on my blog but what can I say?” And just in case you were wondering, thinking to “myself” actually means repeating it out loud several times to my friends and taking their suggestions, Hence the blog title Residual Pizza. So basically I wasn’t thinking to myself at all. LOL I was so busy trying to see the lesson I was suppose to learn or how to put this feeling into words, that it never occurred to me at all that these beautiful moments with my wonderful friends are the lesson, it is the blessing.

No crazy shortcoming, unless you count my lack of discernment on choice of movie, no obvious in your face life lesson to learn from this one. It is merely God, in his desire to delight in us placed wonderful friends in each other’s path. And it is so divinely brilliant how individual and unique we are and how we fit so well together at the same time. It is obvious that this is what God wants for all of us for this season in our lives. It seems that we are all at the beginning of a new chapter and while each woman’s process is different, they are so similar that we edify and lift up one another with great encouragement.

We can go from hysterically laughing to great Godly discussion in moments. We have all laughed and cried together and often don’t want to leave each other’s company until it is absolutely necessary that we leave as to not fall asleep on the drive home. Through these intense times of storytelling and life sharing we not only eat obtuse amounts of humus and bread and encounter “residual Pizza” from time to time but we are creating Residual friendships as well. And what a blessing they are. I love you ladies and thank my God often every time I remember you. Philippians 1:3