Unexpected reunion

At book club yesterday, we were talking about the book, The Rope Walk. The main character, Alice, is a little girl, and she's reading the journals of Lewis and Clark. She marvels at how these good friends can part company in the vast wilderness, and trust that they'll meet again on the trail. It was a really good parallel in the book, and it is equally true in real life. There are so many goodbyes in life. Moving, friends leaving, relationships drifting apart, not to mention death. Having faith that the people you care about will come back into your life at some point in this life, or the next, is important. I moved around a lot as a kid, and even for the first five years of our marriage, and there are a lot of people I've said goodbye to, and some that I had no hope of ever seeing or hearing from again. But the world is a small place, and God has a way of putting things in your path... A few hours after this whole discussion I was talking with my sister, Carlie, and she was telling me about a friend I had in Germany that I thought I would never see again. She bumped into her in Target when she was in Utah visiting, and now she has her email and gets her blog... (I swear I told you, she says. I thought for sure I told you.) So now I'm going to get to talk to my friend from 10th grade! (Hi Angie!!) The confluence of events is just so amazing to me. So, goodbyes aren't for forever.