As its title may suggest, this is a three-part post today.
Tonight my two best friends visited me at work and we hung out after I got off. We decided to go to Starbucks (where else would a blogger go to hang out with friends, lol) and just got to talking.
We started talking about miracles. Anna brought up something a friend of ours had said, "Miracles are subjective." And it's so true. When people today think of the word miracle, we think of big, grande, "God-acts." But miracles are subjective. You never know how the tiniest thing could be a miracle to someone else. Miracles don't have to be these unexplainable acts of power; they can be something as small as giving someone a couple bucks when they need it. You never know what someone has been struggling with and praying for. Take a second and look around for the tiny miracles in life. Look for the tiny chances to be a miracle in someone's life.
In today's society, people are constantly looking for excuses for miracles. They are always trying to say that these certain things could have happened naturally. And it's not that the miracles of the bible or miracles of today couldn't happen on their own, but it's that God allows them to happen at just the right time to just the right people. You can explain miracles without God, but you can't explain the timing or impact.
Then comes the second M - Michaels. We began discussing relationships and people. Michael is a guy I work with who both of them got to know tonight. (I also ran into my youth pastor named Michael tonight, so that explains the plurality.) Anyway, we talked about friendships. For some reason, lately, the three of us have been fixated on discovering each of our stereotypical roles in our friendship. We've decided that I'm the loud drama queen, Anna's the wise advice giver, and Kaylee's the reserved one who observes. The great thing about our dynamic is that we each bring something different to the friendship. It's all about realizing that you're important in any relationship, and accepting that your differences mean that you can gain from each other what you do not poses yourself. My over-dramatic personality brings excitement to our friendship, and I'm able to gain wisdom from the two of them. It just works.
Along the lines of Michael, we talked about guys (I mean, how could we not?). Anna, being the wise advice giver that she is, mentioned how important it is that a guy falls in love with your spirit and the things most important to you. That's true love; not based on physical attraction or forced relations, but a pure, spiritual connection. Something I think a lot of girls (and guys, I presume) struggle with is wanting to ask nagging questions. Like when you're trying to get a guy to say something, and you ask him these questions that you already have a pre-formed answer to, but he's not going to say what you want to hear. And even if he did, what would it be worth when you practically forced him into it? If someone loves you, they're going to tell you the answers you want to hear before you even have to ask.
Then we talked about Mormons. I recently became friends with a Mormon at school and we talked about him. But really what was interesting is how well this Mormon friend of mine was able to defend and back up what he believes. It made me feel ashamed that I can't as adequately defend my beliefs. And both of us know that we're not going to convert the other, which is kind of why we can discuss our beliefs in a rational way. It made me think about the importance of sometimes just sitting back and listening. It's really important to learn about other people and other cultures. Don't ignorantly block out the rest of the world just because they don't believe exactly as you do. That's just downright dumb. How will you ever be able to defend yourself if you never listen to what you're defending against?
Plus, learning about other people is fun! It's really interesting to me to learn about other peoples' beliefs and what's important to them. You'll be amazed at what you get to know about someone just by listening.
Anyway, that was my night. And boy was it amazing :) I feel so blessed to have amazing people in my life who balance me out so perfectly. People who I can discuss literally anything with, and feel no judgement. That's true friendship.
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