This photo makes my heart sing. Back when I was just starting Grad School and Angela was a sophomore at Western Michigan University, we decided that we wanted to have something to do on Friday nights that didn't involve going out and partying. We wanted to meet new people and have fun and do it on campus, at the Wesley Foundation where Angela was a peer minister. So we started Friday Fun Night. At first we didn't get a lot of response but Angela and I showed up to Wesley at 7pm on a Friday night anyway and waited. And guess who was the first person to walk in the door? Joe (see the guy above in the orange shirt). Joe who over a decade later would be sitting in our kitchen on a Friday night, playing games again. I love that so much. So much.
Joe and his wife have recently moved back to Michigan and we rounded up Rick and Eric and Susie (all pictured above) and had dinner this week. We laughed and shared stories and caught up on lives (Facebook doesn't do justice to what's been going on over the past 7 years since we'd seen Rick and Joe) and had a great time meeting Joe and Amanda's one and a half year old son.
Eleven years ago I never would have dreamed that friendships started over board games in a church rec room would still live on so strongly. I'm so so thankful for that. And for all of these people in my life!
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