My Real Life Friends

For my entire life everyone everywhere I went looked exactly like me. I didn’t know that this was a problem until I began to meet people and become friends with people who are nothing like me. 

We don’t look the same. We don’t act the same. Our backgrounds have nothing in common. I wake up and suddenly in my life there are more people who aren’t like me than who are similar to me.

 Somedays I’m like how did I get here. How did this happen? It’s not something I set out to do. It wasn’t intentional. I didn’t even know it was something I needed in my life until God had already brought the people in. And then I’m like THIS is the missing piece of my life! These friends are who my life has been missing. 

Our differences don’t cause problems. They make us laugh at each other sometimes. And they make us roll our eyes at each other sometimes. But they don’t keep us from loving each other. The barriers that society and even the church have told us we needed to have are gone from my life (Don’t get mad about the church comment.  You know it’s totally true. We can have a discussion on that on anytime. I’d love to share my exoerience). 

Let’s be real when you step from that bubble...when you invite people in who are different from you...it’s a risk. You don’t know what you are walking into. But then one day.....

You find yourself sitting at friends house (on a street that you were always told to avoid because it’s too dangerous) watching your kids swim and play together and you realize this is real life! And in all of its dysfunctions, chaos and crazy it’s just about perfect.