Happiness and Friends
At the risk of succumbing to unmanly sappiness, I am going to gush about a few people I really like. I love my friends, and just got back from a wonderful weekend with them.
First of all, a photo of my recently married cousin Brian and his wife Melissa, whose wedding I attended in mid January. I’ve got a lot of “best” friends, but Brian is definitely the one that goes back the farthest, starting from that momentous night as a thirteen year old with him and Loren in Brian’s dad’s haymow when we revealed to each other our deepest secret–who we liked. Turns out he liked the same girl I did, a fact I wasn’t particularly thrilled about, especially since he was always a couple steps ahead of me in the race to win her heart, but being able to talk about that sort of thing with other guys was definitely a big moment for all of us. Anyway, he’s happily married, as of January 13.
Going on to more recent friend events, this past weekend was a big one. SMBI’s Night of Music, the premiere conservative Mennonite event of the year, was Friday night. My little bro Eric was singing, and did very well on a solo. It was lots of fun meeting lots of people I hadn’t seen for ages.
One of the highlights was meeting Marlene, Kyle’s brand new girlfriend. They both seemed very happy, which is awesome!
After hanging out at Denny’s with a million night of music refugees, I had a great ride up to Lancaster with Karen and Sheri, who were nice enough to take me all the way in to the middle of Lancaster city to Jordan and Robin’s house. Michael came the next day, and in the evening Vince and Lydia and KrisAnne came over for supper and we had a totally wonderful evening. As we feasted around great food and conversation, I felt perfectly happy. Perfect happiness is not something I experience every day, that’s for sure, so I definitely notice it when I do feel it. I could go on, but to do so might be desecration. I don’t want to spoil it.
God is pure goodness. Take the love he pours into you this week and lavish it on someone in your life. Be happy.
Tom wrote:
Wait a minute, I’m just putting something together. Is this dude is your brother?!
Posted on 04-Feb-07 at 11:48 pm | Permalink
dbh wrote:
You mean Eric? You got it, man.
Posted on 05-Feb-07 at 9:43 am | Permalink
Karen wrote:
I like it. Thanks for posting. :)
Karen
Posted on 05-Feb-07 at 6:00 pm | Permalink
dinah wrote:
but you didnt mention seeing me?????? i’m hurt. just for the record, it was great to see y’all and you again, and eric did a SMASHING job on his song!!!!! he’d make a great black man =]
Posted on 08-Feb-07 at 2:49 pm | Permalink
dbh wrote:
i’m so dreadfully sorry, dinah…. It was a great pleasure to see you and your goateed husband again! Seriously, it was! it’ll be OK now. I will be sure Eric sees your great compliment!
Posted on 08-Feb-07 at 9:35 pm | Permalink
Benji wrote:
like the pp on that pic.
Posted on 21-Mar-07 at 3:22 pm | Permalink