July/August 2011 setapartgirl ISSUE

One blueberry tea with two packets of honey - check.

One piping hot hazelnut coffee, minus the cream and sugar - check.

Two fresh, oversized peach muffins with butter crumb topping - check.

Two friends eager to sit down for breakfast before a long day at work - check.

So began my Thursday mornings with Lynn...

Thursday mornings at 6:45 had lives we realized that unless we were more become one of my favorite times of the intentional about taking the time to week. Nestled in the back corner of a regularly nurture the friendship, it might quiet (and mostly empty) coffee shop with soon end up on the back burner - and it steaming drinks and warm muffins in was certainly not our desire for that to place, my dear friend Lynn and I would sit happen. Getting out the door by 6:35 down together for an hour to catch up on instead of 7:45 required some extra effort what God was doing in each other‘s lives. from both of us, but it always proved to be Some days we shared exciting answers to well worth it. prayer, and other days we shared burdens Now that I have moved halfway that needed still more prayer. Some across the country, it may be a long time Thursdays, Lynn needed more time to talk, until I share another peach muffin with and sometimes it was the other way Lynn. But until then, I will forever treasure around. Either way, we could always count on the other person to offer a listening ear and encouraging word and of course, we could almost look forward to laughing.

Meeting early Thursday morning hadn’t always been a special tradition for Lynn and I, but at one point in our busy Copyright 2011 The Church at Ellerslie. All rights reserved.

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