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Save Me a Spot (Posted Sep 03 2005) Mary Ann Nguyen - best friends for life Boy, Julie, when I hugged you goodbye at my doorstep and said, "see you later"?, I didn't realize that I would have to wait my whole lifetime before I'd see you again. Do you know how sucky that is?? I want to be able to call you up and tell you the great news that Sam and I are officially courting now. I want to tell you about the ways that God is teaching me new things from the Word. I want to hear the wild new dreams that you are dreaming. I want to share with you where I am following God to. I want to laugh with you over silly things. I want to take spontaneous drives to nowhere in the middle of the night where neither of us know how to get there or get back (remember when we did that and ended up on Lombard Street?). I want you to finish memorizing all the verses in TMS like you promised me you would. But I guess you don't have to do any Scripture memory now, do you? You are so lucky. You get to be with God. You get to see Him face to face. You get to sing in perfect pitch and spend all your time gazing into all His loveliness. You never have to worry about forgetting or neglecting Him or having your heart wander or fighting off temptation or succumbing into sin. Your heart is satisfied, fully satisfied in Him. You lack absolutely nothing. You are filled and full and overflowing. I am so glad you are there. But it's gonna be far too long before I get to see you again. And won't it take forever for us to be able to catch up? My heart just aches with missing you and aches that so much time has to pass without you in it. You promised me that we'd be each other's bridesmaids. I really want you to be at my wedding! And I wanted to see you walk down the aisle as a bride and watch how God wrote your love story. Our kids were supposed to grow up together on the mission field. We were supposed to go together, remember? That's what you said. Now I'm gonna have to save up all my funny stories and you will have to bring me up to speed on where all the good eats are at in Heaven once I get there. Hopefully, God has prepared a mansion for me that's not too far from yours. I can't wait to see you again, Julie. You know, no one called me 'mry ann'? like you always did. And I miss hearing your melodious laughter bouncing off the walls. I am so sad that all the people I will be meeting in the future will never have the chance to hear your laughter or get to know your heart. We've been so much a part of each other's lives for the last six years. If they don't know you, how will they really know me? I am so sad that there will be so much more life that I will be living without you in it. I wish you were here. I really wish you were still here. I love you intensely, Julie. It's been quite a wild ride being best friends with you all these years. Please save me a spot in your calendar for after I've arrived. We'll have lots to catch up on... Love you, mry.
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