Update from Google Analytics: Besides NC, the most visits to this blog come from Florida and Kentucky. That data is probably only meaningful to me and two others- my two dearest friends who live there. When I read it today, it sent chills down my spine. Jenny (right, living in Jacksonville, FL with her Navy pilot husband) and Mary (the bride, living in Louisville, KY with her Southern seminarian husband and her precious daughter) came into my life about the same time, halfway through my sophomore year of college when I was new to this life of faith and wondering if I would ever have any like-minded friends. At the time, I never dreamed we would be in this place.

Can I explain what it means to me to have these precious friends, sisters, partners in a life of faith and ministry? Can I tell you what they have done and been for me these past 7 years? Where would I be without their steadfast friendship, their counsel, their contagious passion for the person and glory of God? These are the women who have shaped me and continue shaping me into the woman God designed me to be. In the coming years, they too will minister in Puerto Supe through the influence they have had on me. This mission is so much the fruit of their presence in my life.

Who knew that internet data could say so much? And yet to me it speaks deeply- that there are two women out there who are invested in my life and ministry, engaged in the work God is calling me to do, committed to me even when we are apart.

Let me also mention my precious friends the Finks and Metzls, who will never get such acclaim because they live in Charlotte. Too many people. Skews the data. Nonetheless, as I was writing this I remembered that they read this silly blog every morning and night. I can't get sappy about too many people in one post, but if I allowed myself, I'd go there next.

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