Re-union

I put at dash at the word "reunion" to emphasize how important this meeting was.

This afternoon I met with my old friend Ana. This meeting has been planned repeatedly and even got postponed when we lost confirmation when my cellphone signal went dead. So we reset the meeting after a month and finally we sat down over frapuccinos (coffee jelly for me :)). The rest of my family joined later and we had a fruitful exchange of updates that we hoped we had more time.

Ana was a classmate from Kindergarten to High School. We never got together in same barkada but occasionally went to the same sleep-overs with common friends. In high school I came to know the Lord and most of our fun times together were spent in youth camps and church events. After college we have gotten closer when we were already working in the same networking company. I even stood as a godmother to one of her daughters.

After some circumstances that separated us (busyness at work, mostly), we were content with only occasional updates.

What impacts me recently (meaning for the last 5 years)is getting good reports from her which speaks highly of her testimony. I am amazed at how God worked in her family and personal life. She is candid in sharing how much she and her husband learned from the challenges that they faced in business, in family testings. Her life story will make a great MMK episode or even a teleserye. Its core shows God's faithfulness and grace. It encourages us to have them urge us to pursue our love for the nations.

So I am excited every time we plan to meet and to hear updates from her. Of what the Lord is doing lately through them. She is passionate, bold and a natural leader. Her husband has a big heart! And together they face persecutions, more challenges and hopeful expectations for the future.

I am expectant of our next re-unions.