Friends

There are times when I wish I could talk to everyone in the world for like 5 minutes [and by everyone in the world I simply mean all of ACU and Co.) and still be cool. I don't have the time to talk to everyone I want - and yet as hard as I try, I can't seem to communicate with those that mean the most to me.

When I was a Sophmore, and The Artist Formerly Known As Boyfriend was a Senior, I didn't understand why he was always too busy to get to me at a normal hour. I remember one time, when I was waiting for him in the campus center and he took from after chapel until about 1:15 to finally get to sitting down next to me on the cushions, and then I had to go. I read an entire magazine that day...and wondered how he could be like that. Now I know.

Last week, one of my kids waited for me just that long in the campus center. I made it to the sitting down part, but everytime he got a word in edgewise, someone wanted to see me, or ask me a question, and the burdens of leadership dictate that I answer. I had this feeling that he could wait because he understood - because he loved me. Then I knew - I was losing sight of what I'd promised to always remember. I don't want to be a name on someone's buddy list - on 150 people's buddy lists. I DO want to be a VIP in my five closest friends' Cell Phones, or in the know when good stuff happens to them, and not just the one who finds out through the 6 degree of ACU [Facebook].

I've got to make sure they know.