Old Friends

3.11.14

     Happy Three Year Wedding Anniversary to me and Alex!

     The call came at approximately 7:45 AM, my boss needed me to go to Waco for a case that would start at 10 AM. Now, if you know anything about Dallas, you know that Waco is about 2.5 hours away if you don't mess with any Dallas traffic. I was about to mess with Dallas traffic. I jumped in my car and tried to elbow my way through downtown to get to the other side of I-35, and eventually made it to the case in time to cover a whopping hour-long procedure. I was finished right at lunchtime.
      I have a friend from college who went to Baylor Law school after we graduated and practices in Waco. She was about 37 weeks pregnant, and for some reason I just got a wild hair and decided to text her to see if she had time for lunch (not truly expecting her to have the time since she's a busy lady). Within minutes, she had texted me back and confirmed a time and a place for lunch. Now I was excited about being in Waco since I hadn't seen Liz in about 4 years, since she got married.
       As we sat down to lunch, we reminisced over old college times (we were in the Longhorn Band together at Texas), and about how different we are now that we are old and married. Finally, we got around to talking about her pregnancy, she was having a little girl.
      "Have you guys picked out names yet?" I asked
      "No, not yet. We have some that we like, but we decided that we would wait until she gets here and see what she looks like before we name her." Liz shrugged.
       "Do you have a birth plan?"
       "Get to the hospital," she laughed through her response.
       "Okay, that's a good plan! I think those things always fall through in the end anyways," I told her. "I wanted to do all-natural before we figured out that Kaitlyn was breech... and then everything went the way it did anyways..." I trailed off. "We can totally talk about something else if you'd like to- I don't want to make you more anxious than you probably already are."
        Liz shrugged, "It doesn't make me anxious. To be honest, when everything happened I was right at 13 weeks pregnant, and I had been so worried about everything, everything up to that point. I mean, full blown anxiety before every doctor's visit. But then that happened with Kaitlyn and it was like... God used that to wake me up. I'm not in control. He's in control."
         That was absolutely one of the best compliments we could have been told about our story. That Liz was able to release her anxiety because of our loss...  That just means something to me. Our story helped someone.
          Liz and I were in a few Bible studies together in college, and she was one of those people that changes your spiritual walk. To be honest, without her I'm not sure what my walk would have looked like through college. She kept me plugged in with other believers, and she kept me accountable. To hear that our story helped her, well, I guess that's just one of the beautiful ripple effects of Kaitlyn's life.