SOUL SISTERS

Thank You, Heavenly Father, for the precious gift of soul sisters. 

You knew exactly how they would enrich my life and walk with you. You knew they would encourage and strengthen me by their living examples of love without demands or expectations. You knew they would openly share joys and hurts, failures and faults, hopes and dreams. You knew they would gently hold in confidence each other’s secrets whispered from the depth of aching hearts. And You drew us – no, You knit us together into Soul Sisters who have laughed, prayed, played and cried together for sixteen  years.

We have shared

     JOYS – births of children and grandchildren, graduations, weddings, anniversaries, accomplishments; 

     SORROWS – death and loss, fear, cancer, heartache, broken relationships, job stress, illness, surgeries;

     and a myriad of LIFE CHANGES. 

Holding each other up to You in prayer, we knew You cared even more than we did.

So I thank You, Father, for my ladies group – those dear women you put into my life when I was a stranger to Kansas and started teaching the evening Bible Study. Those women I first met at Bible study, I now count as precious sisters and dearest of friends.

Thank You for the hours spent meeting together monthly – first at Bible study, then for lunches, then in each other’s homes where we talked so long, regularly ushering in the midnight hour. Our husbands, mystified by how we find so much to talk about month after month, learned not to wait up for us because we never got home before the wee hours of the morning. When meeting at restaurants we linger outside long after the doors close for the night, reminiscent of those first long-ago meetings when we stood talking for hours in the church parking lot.  For every one of those times together I am grateful.

The words of Phil 1:3 apply to these dear friends, “I thank my God in all my remembrance of you…”   I am thankful for the way each one welcomed me into her life, thus enriching mine. And so, this week when I bid my friends "Good night" (good morning, actually) and closed my front door,  I went to bed with a heart overflowing with gratitude that God created us with a longing for friendship and then fulfilled that longing with such special people, my Soul Sisters.