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My Friend
The
last time I saw him I was just passing through Gaffney with my daughter, who
was five years old at the time. A little daddy/daughter time, and we stopped
by the Drive-In to surprise him and a couple of his daughters who were working
there. His family owned the place for
years, and his life had taken him all over and back to where he began, and he
now ran the place in addition to his ministry.
I
remember when he couldn't sing, not one lick.
We were growing up, same church, same youth group, friends, but he was
no different than any of us, until our music minister saw something in him that
no one else really had seen, and then next thing you knew he was singing. He was not just singing, but he was special
and talented.
As we
grew his talent grew. Our paths
separated, joined, and separated again.
We spent one semester actually rooming together at Furman University, an
interesting experience to say the least.
He was more interested in pizza than studying I think. I still have the check stubs from that
semester, $439 in dominos pizza.
The
years took me around the world, and took him back home. When I came home from Madagascar he was one
of the first people I went to see. When
I got married, we took words I had written for a wedding song, and my good
friend Greg put the music to it, and he gave his voice to the song. You can find it in the video clip.
The
last time I saw him he made Mia and I milk shakes, one chocolate and one
vanilla, and we walked out to the "office", the little trailer behind
the drive in and we talked. We talked
about the lives we'd led until then. We
talked about the places we had been, the stories only he and I knew. We talked about the women who had changed and
impacted our lives. We talked about the
grace of God. We talked about the
future. Mia and I enjoyed our
milkshakes.
A few
months later he was gone. It has been
four years now. I am still angry at him. My heart still aches. I long for God's mercy and God's grace to
redeem it all. I miss hearing one of the two or three best voices I ever heard
sing. I miss our talks. I really miss the milkshakes. I just miss my friend.
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Living for God in a World Gone Crazy - Daniel 1
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New Hope Church, Greenwood, IN
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