He's gone.

For the past three weeks, I've had the joyful privilege of hosting a friend and old roommate at the house.  It was nice to see his smiling mug and hear an audio account of some of the adventures that I had only read about over the past year.  It was nice to have someone at home when I got home from work.  Most of my evenings at home are silent because there's no one there to talk to.  So that was a lovely change.  We also got to talk about our common loves:  music, soccer and women.  So it was great to have him around.

 

But he's gone now.  Next week he'll be back in the motherland, gearing up for a new school year and all the fun that that holds.  And I'll miss him, but God is using him to do good things for the Kingdom and I am comforted in that.  He's doing good work.  Pray for him.