This year has been so full of meaningful friendships. I'm so greatful for the people in my life at the moment; the friends I've know since forever and are still around, the friends that happened by accident, the God-ordained friends, the friends I've cried with, the friends I've laughed with, the friends I've just sat in silence with.
I've come to know the value of community, the gift of people, the grace and truth of being in relationship with people. Life was never made to be lived alone. We weren't made to be alone.
One of my dearest friends I met this year. We've had our awkward moments, silent moments, philosophical moments, many laughs, and even a few tears.
It was his birthday in September. I decided to do something different. I wrote and illustrated a little book for him. It's possibly one of the bravest things I've ever done, definately one of the most rewarding!
My creativity has always been exactly that; MINE.
Creation is a vulnerable thing. It's all the things within you that nobody sees. The ideas and hues and textures, the sounds and silences, all the secrets only you know. Everything risks being seen in Creation. When you create; a part of you becomes real, a part of you risks the opinions of others, a part of you is completely exposed.
I have found in Willem a friend who smiles at my awkwardness and lets me be, a friend who encourages the rawness of reality and walks there with me. I don't have to explain myself, I don't have to be live in camoflage either.
Everyone needs a friend with whom they can just be. Isn't that the intended beauty of life; that we would just be... together... that we would just be.
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