Hello Sunday☕️🇺🇸

 

Hello Sunday

Yesterday my husband and I attended a wedding in Pierz, MN. It was a classmate of mine. We were best friends in middle school or grade 7-9. Due to Facebook we were able to reconnect and stay in touch. 

I’ll be honest, we aren’t very close these days but something in me said I needed to attend this wedding. Once I got to my seat and the music started to play, I understood immediately why I needed to be there. We grew up in the same small town. She grew up on one side of the lake in town and I grew up on the other. The classmates on that side of the lake all had parents with well to do jobs, their parents were on average 15 yrs or older then mine and catholic. It was a different energy. I grew up in a penny pinching, very young, low income household and Lutheran. It was the 70’s - a different time. 

I needed to be there because it jogged my childhood memories and thoughts forward. I had forgotten all of them for years. They all came to me in a moment, and all of a sudden I had all the answers for that child in me. As an adult I’ve studied the history of our home town. It was just 8 years ago that I visited the other side of our home towns’ lake. Otherwise I had not been to that side since I was 11. 

As a child, I could feel energy and see the colors with that energy and didn’t understand why. Yesterday I sat there with her family and it was the same energy and colors I felt as a child. It all came back to me. This friend was the first person I confided in to see if she saw the same things and she made fun of me and said no. No one does she replied. I was 11 years old. It’s this moment of my childhood that I had blocked out of my memory until yesterday. This is the point that changed our friendship and I started distancing myself from her. We were not close friends. At times, I recalled, we hated one another in school.

This classmate was friends with everyone in school. She was in every sport. She was in band and choir. In reality I felt like I should have been the last person there at her wedding. And yet she had chose me after all these years to come to her very small wedding. I was one of 3 people from our school yesterday. The other two come to find out were friends of the families. They grew up next door to each other 

It was worth the hour drive and hot sun. I had the best afternoon reflecting and reliving. I was overcome with joy to finally put the memories of a child in me to rest. The classmates parents of age 88 were there and full of great health. It was magical to reconnect with them. 

My advice- if your feel you need to go and be a part of something that doesn’t make any sense for you to be a part of - go!! 

Wishing you blessings today.

Nancy