I Need Friends.....

A couple of weeks ago I was out to dinner with some folks. As we sat we went around the table and were talking about the ages of each of the people there. I found myself at the table with two twenty year olds and two nineteen year olds. I realized then that I needed friends.

Over the past eight years my life has been consumed with one thing: Chi Alpha. For the lat four of those years it has even been my job. The shift from student to staff is a tricky one. You've been in this ministry for song long and it's been your whole life, friends and all. And then somewhere a long the way you notice that you keep getting older and that everyone around you is staying in the same age bracket. And then one day you realize that you are at least six or seven years older than everyone you are eating dinner with.

For probably seven of the last eight years, I have never really desired anything outside of Chi Alpha. I think as I am "growing" up though, I realize that I need some folks around that are my age. Maybe not too many, but some.

I'm headed to Phoenix next week for a conference and then I think after that I am going to look for a small group at my church to join. This year as an intern I literally didn't have the time. However this year, I will have the time or at least make the time for it.

Until then......