Thankful for friends!

I got on today to write my Thankful for TODAY but really am just so overwhelmed with my thankfulness I have for my amazing friends.  The last few days and weeks have been blessed with sweet friends.  I was laying here thinking about all the amazing people that the Lord has brought into my life and know that those people are there for a reason.  So today I am thankful for friends.  I'm thankful for friends who live far away and yet still love me.  My heart flutters a bit when I hear Sweet Home Alabama come out of my phone because I know it is a dear friend from Minnesota!  I am thankful for the random calls (and sorry to all those I have not returned calls to... it's been a rough few weeks!).  I am thankful for being able to spend time over a meal catching up with friends whom I haven't seen in a few weeks!  I love being able to laugh and joke about life and talk about what God is doing.  I'm thankful for friends who help me to seek the Lord!  I am thankful for friends I have known my entire life and who I can pick right back up with after not seeing each other for months (but will see this weekend)! I am thankful for restored friendships!  I am thankful for the friend who spoke hard truth into my life last week when I really didn't want to hear it!  I am thankful for girls who I can be real with, fallen on my knees crying out and who choose to walk through it with me.  I am thankful for the friends who tell me (and show me) that I am worthy! I am thankful for friends who speak my love language to me.  I am thankful for the friends who open their arms to me.  I am thankful for the friends who pursue my heart. I am thankful for the friends who pray for me! I am just thankful to be able to call so many amazing people my  friends!  Thank you so much for living life with me and loving me well!


One of the above mentioned amazing friends sent me a text today that was so sweet to my heart!  This is one of the many reasons why I am thankful for her friendship...


"Jen sought the Lord, and He answered her and delivered her from all her fears.  She looked at Him and she was radiant, and her face shall never be ashamed.  Jen cried and the Lord heard her and saved her out of her troubles.  The angel of the Lord goes with her, encamps her as she respects the Heavenly Father! ~Psalm 34-4-7; adapted a bit ;-)"