Meet the Roommate!

I’ve said it before on the blog and I’ll say it again…… relationships come and go in our lives. Every relationship is for a reason, for a season, and some last a lifetime.

I’ve had a roommate for over the last month and it has been a blast.

Let me start from the beginning. Jill and I met at church camp while we were in elementary I believe going into middle school. It was my first year at church camp and we ended up in the same cabin together. Of course I came with my ear issues and at the time had drops I had to take which required me to go to the nurses building to get my medicine. I was very insecure and scared that people were going to make fun of me and I got really upset and started crying and what not, and here comes Jill to console me and make sure I was going to be okay.

And from then, a friendship was built.

All the remaining years at camp we asked to be placed in the same cabin together each year and long after camp we remained in touch. She came to my high school graduation and she lived a few hours away and we have maintained our friendship through all her college years and to this day.

Jill is my lifetime forever and ever friend.

I visited her early last year when she lived in North Carolina and we had a blast and we went to Vegas with a group of people late last year and of course that trip was soooo much fun.

At the Biltmore House:


The beach in North Carolina:



Out to dinner the last night in NC:


Vegas:


Grand Canyon:


So fast forward to December 2009. I’m looking for a roommate and Jill is looking to move back to Florida to go to grad school. She is a nurse. She doesn’t want a permanent position if she is to go back to school so she decides she wants to be a travel nurse instead.

God is so wonderful because it turns out the local hospital in my area which is right down the road from my house called her and offered her a position. What are the odds? Seriously. So at the beginning of January she moved in with me and started her job at the hospital. She is only contracted for 13 weeks at the hospital but it’s going to be a wonderful 13 weeks in a season where I get to share life with one of my best friends.

Who knows what will happen at the end of the 13 weeks and what school she’ll potentially choose or if she’ll just continue being a travel nurse and where that might take her. She’s seeking God out for direction on that one. But one thing I do know is friendships are a gift from God. Jill is a gift from God. It’s amazing how each friendship brings a different dynamic to your life. Our hearts and personalities are uncanny. I can talk spiritual matters with Jill, can connect with her on such a deep level. We pray together, share together, laugh together, and love and respect each other. She’s one of those friends that we can pick up right where we left off, and I just love that.

I could go on and on, but I just felt Jill deserved a blog post all of her own.

Do you have a friendship like this in your life? Share with me about your lifetime forever and ever friend!