old friends...

so i had an awesome opportunity this last weekend. flew speaker pelosi home to san fran and i got to stay there all weekend. i was able to borrow one of our cars and go hang out in vacaville with some amazing friends (cory & krista cline). cory and i had an interesting conversation about how we don't truly have any close friends at this stage in life. here in d.c., i can say that i have people i love...people that i like...but not really anybody that i really love sharing life with (besides sara!). when sara and i lived in california, i completely believe that we truly connected with an amazing group of people. we bonded over food, wine, games, and deep and shallow conversations about everything from God to sex. it was like we were in this small snapshot of life that we were free to just hang out with each other and treat each other like family in all the best and worst ways. and i can honestly say i miss that. outside of that group, i can count the people like that in my life on 1 hand. not sure if that's depressing or not...but it was amazing to just fall back into an amazing relationship with cory and krista for just one evening. it was like the last 5 years didn't even happen (except for the kids running around!). i'm looking forward to the same thing happening this weekend as dj gets married. anyway, all that just made me so deeply thankful that God brought cory, krista, lucas, colleen, peder, sasha, and dj into our lives. we don't really do a great job staying in touch all the time now, but that's not really what's important right now. what's important is that we (like family) will always have a connection that time can't really take away...that there are people in our lives that we would always choose to sacrifice for. it's just an amazing gift.