Sorry guys, you are great friends but... You are guys and you think like guys and well, sometimes you just don't make sense. I have missed my female friends they understand things like feeling cranky, and how things should be, they just make sense.


We used to make the time to see each other because we served in ministry together. Our unique gifts blended together to form a wonderful team. A team that supported one another, loved one another and, slapped one another around when needed. Nothing like a little truth in love. We would work on the women's breakfast together this meant that a few times a month we would get together to plan a breakfast fun, or at least the set up time the night before. We would share a class together on Sundays. This group of women welcomed me into this church. Helped me to find my footing. They shared their hearts and I shared mine. They are my wise counsel and I didn't realize it until recently God used me to be wise counsel to them.


I was called to serve in our youth ministry and didn't spend much time in women's ministry this past year. I made friends in my walk of life and in my ministry. The bonds remained but the time was not there. This past year has been rough on each of us in our own ways. Lately we have seen each other and said I miss you.


It is time for the first breakfast of the year. I was asked to be involved in the skit and I said yes. I told the women who will be speaking that I had agreed and she sighed. "you have no idea how glad I am to hear that. It gives me peace. You are doing your thing and the others are doing theirs. We are all working on it together again."


Tonight I met one of those women for dinner. We had a wonderful chat, she commented on how when she last saw me I looked happy and she wanted to hear what was going on. Get caught up. I wonder where she got that since I was sharing a concern with her at the time. She is right I am happy.


I left the women to find my own footing my own place in our church world. I have done that, now I feel like I can come back as an equal, a women in my own right. I needed to break away to find my identity, God has shown me that and now I feel like I can be a more productive part of the whole.


Tonight we talked about writing and life and love and god and everything else under the sun. We prayed together and had a wonderful time. I heard the words I am glad you are my friend tonight. Those are mighty powerful words. Thank you God for the blessing of these wonderful strong women role models in my life. They have shown me there is nothing you can't get us through. I am glad for the gift of each one of them in my life.