It's a Small, Small World!!

This has been an interesting week, for sure. It's one of those weeks when I am convinced that we really DO live in a small, small world.

First, I received an email from dh this week. It was a forward of an email he received after a church service last Sunday. Here's the story:

Last Sunday, the sender of the email, C, was in church in Austin, Texas. Her pastor referred to the "coaching process" they are undergoing and mentioned my dh's name. C was floored because she was a member of our church in the Tampa area over 8 years ago. Afterwards, she talked with the pastor and found out that it was, indeed, my husband.

Thank goodness for Google---she googled my dh and found his email address. They are going to try and get together later this month when dh is back out her way.

Let me tell you, C was (and is) very special to us. Circumstances have just caused our paths to drift apart. She cared for DS 3 when he was a baby until he went to preK. She used to volunteer in my classroom when I needed additional help (as her daughters went to my school). She spent countless hours just laughing with and caring for us in so many ways. In fact, my boys still tell what they lovingly call: "Mrs. C Stories"!

It was C who understood my apprehension and utter denial when I found myself pregnant with DS 4 (long story for another day). One particular Sunday, when I skipped church...and sat at home to sulk , my doorbell rang. I muttered as I walked to answer it in my disheveled and depressed state. There, at the door, was my friend, C who had her frying pan and all the crepe fixins' in her hand (something I loved her to make). She said, "Put on your bathrobe and meet me in the kitchen, I'm making us crepes for breakfast!" There WAS no telling C "no"! We sat at my dining room table and laughed and cried until I felt better. It was an amazing moment of sheer friendship that I will never forget.

C is now living in Texas with her daughter. They just moved there in December. How exciting that we are now going to be able to reconnect!! God is good.

A second, and no less surprising, thing happened a couple of days later. I was watching the news and they were talking about our state education test, the FCAT. They interviewed a high school teacher and she looked familiar to me...then they posted her name, MJ, on the screen. I think my jaw dropped to the floor.

MJ and her husband were my youth leaders when I was in the 7th and 8th grade (30 years ago)! We used to babysit their kids when they were young. We used to go stay at their house. They are part of the reason that I continued in my faith as a teenager.

We reconnected one time about 21 years ago when they lived in a north Florida city. That was the last time I heard from them. Now, here she was, on my TV screen this week!!

Thank goodness for Google...I was able to google her name...and find her school in northern Florida. I emailed her at her school address and received an email back the very next day.

Of course, her kids are grown and now having kids! And her husband, who was in banking, has now become an Episcopal Priest!

Isn't it amazing how time flies???

And isn't it amazing just how SMALL this world really is (thanks to Google) ???