the soul sisters of our lives...

just what would we do without them?  can i get an “Amen Sister!” AMEN! that’s right. i hear you ladies! you’re thinking “wow” it’s like we’re somehow already telepathically communicating with each other right? so say it with me.“SOooooUL-Sister” i could say it over and over again and not get sick of hearing it~ SoUl-sista, SOooooUL sista, SOUL SISTER. ooo-ya!  don’t you just love the sound of it?  i’m sure at this point you’re wearing the same silly grin on your face as i am. i say it with pride and joy, "SOUL-SISTER"  and my thoughts shift fondly to the women in my life who fulfill the role. so how is it that we (as in us ‘women’) just ‘get it’ like that?  i’ll tell you what i think.. we are not just any created being. we are a specially crafted breed of love, light, emotion, strength, faith, and wisdom, designed by the hand of God Himself to be the perfect companion to men and women. we are women. we are proud!

we were baby girls. we were ‘little’ girls. we were adolescents. we were teenagers. finally ‘adults’ and Oh SO grown up as we turned 18...we entered the door of ‘womanhood’ and the years started flying by faster and faster. for so many of us it was our teen and college years that became vital to all the years to come as our friendships strengthened and our bonds became like intricately exquisite sparkly chains. we realized who had become the ‘Soul-Sisters’ of our life and who we just knew would always be there. is there not this beautiful, unspoken understanding among us as women? my soul sisters--- one more reason why God made us such relational beings. it's all about the girl's night! the girl's brunch. the bachelorette parties. bridal showers. baby showers. girl's weekend getaways. the most WILD and CRAZY Joys of LIFE we share with our girls! we love each other. we learn from each other. we challenge each other. we encourage each other. we grow with each other. we simply need each other.

last night i enjoyed some wonderful quality ‘Soul-Sister’ time with one of my longtime high school best friends, Ms. Rosemarie VanderJagt. heat lamps, spanish tapas, and yummy red sangria at the turquoise bar in PB. we had the patio to ourselves as the (early) live-entertainment gent. serenaded us with his guitar. a picture-perfect evening as we caught up and talked about ‘life’ and everything we’ve been going through. my dear Ro, how i love and adore her! we finished up with our 3 hour-long happy hour and gave one big, long, warm embrace before going our separate ways. driving home, i thought about her and the other ‘soul-sister’s’ in my life and imagined again the beginning of my soul’s creation. thinking, 'i just know' who was in my ‘SouL-pool’ before this life here on earth. and while some of my ‘soul-sister’s’ are indeed in my gene pool here, i decided the ones who aren’t simply had to have occupied the same piece of heaven, the same 'pool' where our souls laughed and played together! i just know that it is the reason i found each one of them here and why i can’t ever let them go

our Soul-Sisters~ just one more reason why we find completion as 'women' ~ and a wildly beautiful and complex species we are. so again, how do we get through life without them? …we don’t. 

One LoVE

Naomi Rose