Weather or not?

In honor of my girlfriend Shawna(she named this entry last night), here is the following post.

Shawna and I have been friends for about 5years. Our husbands hit it off after meeting at church, and although she thought I did not like her when we first met, I assure you I did. It was the beginning of many meals prepared and eaten together, 'holiday' gift exchanges, bottle rocket wars, Casting Crowns concerts, Rodeos, ER visits, home remodeling weekends and the like.
But, when the Lord called our family to leave that church to worship and serve elsewhere, we went from seeing each other 3 or 4 times a week, to maybe once a month.

That is unless, we have nasty weather. You see, 6 or 7 years ago, their house was destroyed by a tornado, and for obvious reasons, they are still a little gun shy. So when Jr, her husband, is out of town with work, and the weather gets bad, they head over her to wait out the storm with us.

That brings us to last night. The weather was pretty nasty so we stayed up till around midnight enjoying our time together and catching up. At this point you should also know that when Shawna and my husband get together, there is A LOT of laughter between them and Shawna is usually the one trying to keep it together.

So after a long night, and more memories added to the cache, we emerge this morning not knowing when our schedules will line up again. We might not be able to "schedule " another 5 hours to sit and chat for awhile. But, I am glad that our friendship rolls with the punches just like we do. And I am grateful for the bad weather that brings us together when we least expected it.

P.S. The weather did a little trickery on us and the really bad stuff just barely missed us. Hence her comment that today's blog should be titled, "Weather or not?"

I agree, because "weather or not" we are there for each other in the REAL storms of life.