Time is a funny thing.
Sometimes days stretch out, and the hours seem endless. Like those that are just long…when Maelie won’t nap, and it seems like 5:30 will never come so I can have a bit of relief.
Other times it flies. We blink and, suddenly, a year (or more) has passed, and we wonder things…like where our last year in Indonesia went or how our tiny little girl became an (almost) walking, talking toddler.
And no matter what happens with time, it seems like there’ s never enough of it.
We made a quick six hour trip to Janesville today
to visit some dear friends who are home for the summer and about to head back to Indo. We saw them a few weeks ago but wanted to see them again, and today was really the only day that worked for all of us. It was so good…to talk, laugh, process, and pick up a friendship where it left off.
It means so much that they still want to be part of our lives…even though we’re on opposite sides of the world.
Toward the end of the evening, Mae was hanging out with Tobin, Gregg, Noah, Jana, and Amie, and Janine and I were having coffee and talking on the patio, and we ended up having one of those deep, I-have-so-needed-this, conversations that happen very rarely. It was a moment I wanted to hang onto forever and prayed that God would multiply the minutes.
Of course, those minutes flew…and it was time to go.
So we hugged and said our goodbyes… and that was it.
Not enough time…that’s how I’ m feeling after today.
I didn’t really cry until we pulled away, but even now the tears brim and threaten to stream down my face.
I guess with friends who have walked a path so unknown to most of the people in our lives, there will never be enough time.
Just memories and experiences…and the Fa
ther who holds us all together.
And those things have to be enough.
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