Lent: Friends

Greet our friends

   by name. (3 John 15)

Dear Priscilla,

I’m looking at the picture you sent Grammy of you with your university friends. I’m so happy you have found such good friends. I hope, like your sister Abby, you will be able to bring them by someday so that we can know them by name. Jesus refers to his Bethany friend as “Our friend Lazarus” (Jn 11:11). That is the thing about good friends—you want others, even your grandparents, to know them too.

I didn’t realize how difficult high school friendships were for you. In the midst of the COVID epidemic you moved from Vandegrift High School in Austin, TX, up I-25 near 1,000 miles to Dakota Ridge High School in Littleton, CO. Maybe God, like with Job, is making up double for what you lost. I pray you will be able to nestle into your university years, enjoy your university friendships, and even enjoy your university studies. Enter into your collegiate life with joy and thanksgiving. It is a special time.