A Year Later

 A year ago, the most amazing thing happened in the most ordinary of places. I was just going through emails at the end of the day and a message appeared from Ancestry.com. Fast forward 365 days and all I can do is give thanks. I give thanks to Sarah who entered into the most tenuous of situations and asked the hard question to Mike and I, "Could my mom be your sister?" I give thanks to Amy who is the sister and friend that I didn't know I was waiting for and who in some strange and unexplainable way has completed me, completed my definition of family, and what it means to be a sibling. In the year that has passed I have been in her physical company in 2 different time periods and the only way to describe it is to say that I just can't get enough of her. We meet for breakfast and then gather again for a family dinner or meet for breakfast and then again the next day to hang out in the Gardens.   Our conversations no longer entail the childhood that we each experienced but have moved through time and space into the spiritual realms that we each have embraced and look toward our next phase of life.  We grow and learn from each other; we enter into each other's holy places and ask questions because we want to know more.  We want to know each other more deeply and we want to know the paths that have brought each of us to these places of God's love.  She is truly a gift that I never knew I was craving.  And now that she is here in my life, I keep finding ways to be in her presence.  I said it before, I can't get enough of her.