Me and My Gang

So last Sunday, I was preparing to make yet another trip to visit my hometown of Maquon, IL.  I was going to go celebrate my friend Sarah's 21st birthday!!!  As I was packing and preparing for the drive, I began to think about my friends and how much I see God in them.  There are four of us that form "The Gang".  There is myself, Ashley, Sarah, and Evan.  All of us are different...very different, and yet we still found what it takes to become the best friends that anyone could ever have.

You already know about me so I am going to talk about the other three.  First there is Ashley.  She was a 2007 graduate with me.  Her and I never interacted much during school, we rolled in different circles.  She was always nice when it mattered but other than that, she hung out with girls who were not always the nicest to me.  When her and I began to hang out towards the very end of our senior year, all of a sudden none of that mattered anymore and we have since become best friends, even though we still argue and get on each others nerves sometimes.

Sarah and I became friends earlier in high school.  I think it was my junior year, her sophomore year, we took P.E. together.  Everyday we had to run laps around the gym for an allotted amount of time.  Since we got to go at our own pace, Sarah and I would jog together and just talk.  We always had fun during our talks.  When we began to hang out towards the end of my senior year, her and I clicked.  We both have very outgoing personalities and we know how to have fun (especially when it comes to riding giant rocking horses :-D ).  She has become one of my dearest friends.  We have realized that we both can become mad at each other but we love each other so much that given time, we come to terms and move on.

Evan is my best friend.  He was a freshman my senior year.  I ended up sitting at the same table as him at lunch during that school year.  Evan was not like the other guys in his class.  He had a level of maturity that surpassed each of them combined.  He was always fun to talk to and during our spring play I "passed the torch" to him.  Even though we talked at lunch and during play practice we never hung out much otherwise.  Once we did we became best friends.  We are two very different guys.  He is sports and manual labor, and I am arts and relaxing.  We have a lot of conflicts of personality, but that does not and will not ever come between the friendship that we have.

You see all of us are Christians.  We all love God.  We hang out as often as we can, but we don't need drugs and alcohol to have a good time.  Give us a cheesy board game or video game that claims to know whether you are telling the truth or not and we will find a way to have fun.  God can be seen in each and every one of these three individuals.  I believe that this is why we have become still friends, and that is why we will remain friends until we are old and have retired to finish our days in our future summer home...Haha!

Thanks once again for reading my blog.  I pray that you and your friends can form this special bond as well.  Thanks again, and don't forget to spread the Jesus!

GOD BLESS!