New Friends and Tender Mercies

Shawn and I have recently decided that we need to be more proactive in making friends and keeping friends. For about a week I fell into the trap of self pity and loneliness. Time does, it seems, make the heart grow fonder and thus as more time has passed since our exodus from Utah, the more homesick I have grown to be. I miss my family and Sunday dinners and birthday dinners and "just because" gatherings and I miss weekends with friends and easy opportunities to be social. So, in order to be more proactive, on Sunday Shawn and I stopped by a family's house with whom we hope to become friends and ended up visiting for over an hour. We felt like we were taking a step in the right direction and were both happy about our visit. The following day a neighbor called me and invitied Mia and me to go on a walk and to the park. A very simple thing but to someone desperate for socialization and friends, it was a tender mercy from the Lord. Truly He hears our prayers, even simple ones of "we need friends," and helps us.