Memories of Midi

There are too many to number, but here are a few highlights from our friendship...

• Walking the perimeter at UCLA our freshmen year in rainstorm so strong the rain was coming at us horizontally as we shared the stories of our lives thus far


• Praying with each other until 3 am at Berkeley Presbyterian Church as God did some major things in Midi


• Sharing a room and all of our clothes not only with each other our sophomore year, but much of Sproul Hall 2North as well


• Midi having meatloaf for the first time in her life at my parents' house, me getting introduced to kimchi at her parents'


• Meeting to pray, encourage and challenge each other for 16 years


• Getting to overlap as couples when Midi and Mark started dating not long after David and I got married; we had a couple of very fun trips together as couples to Palm Springs and Monterrey.


• Helping Midi will all of the wedding stuff as she got ready to marry Mark


• Midi present and helping with Emma's birth/my getting to be at the hospital shortly after Nathan and Lucas arrived.


• Being one of the first visitors to meet Nathan and Lucas on their first day of life


• Having our kids grow up together; there was a whole season where Emma had to drink her bottle just like the twins, calling it "Nathan and Lucas" style.


• "Girls night out" where we'd hang out without our husbands or kids, but of course, spend a good portion of the time talking about those same loved ones


• Our last night out, a week before Midi died, having dinner together, talking about how excited she was about adopting a girl this next year, watching Juno together afterwards


• Our last family time, as we all stayed over at the Mikasas' on December 30th, watching the kids have a blast together, and then enjoying a lovely evening hanging out as couples

There's much more that could be said; those snapshots don't do justice to how much joy and familiarity was in our friendship. Iwas reading a book today that had a chapter in it about heaven. I wasn't particularly into it, but as I read about the author's ideas of reconnecting with loved ones, I teared up thinking of the joy it will be for me to enjoy Midi's company again. Theologically I know it will be nothing compared to God's, but I hope that it is a "joy set before me" nonetheless...