How many of you have a best friend/best friends that are like the exact opposite of you?  lol  I was just wondering because me and my best friends are so not alike, it's even a tad bit scary. 

 My friend Hannah loves the outdoors and enjoys having "adventures".  I remember when we (me, Hannah, and my other best friend... who I will mention later) went canoeing and we came to a big fallen -down tree in the water. I guess you couldn't call it a big problem, because we did eventually manage to slide through to the other side, but it was still in the way!  * thinks to herself..."dumb tree!" *  The biggest issue with this tree was a sharp branch sticking out. Yeah... So anyways, me and one of my friends' moms were in one canoe and Hannah and my other best friend were in a different canoe. We come up to this stupid tree right? And there's that evil branch. I watched my friends try to figure a way to get through to the other side without getting poked by the branch. Ha, I should have known it would be no problem for Hannah... she and my other friend got themselves through alright while me and Mrs. Annette try to figure a good excuse for returning back to the car and abruptly ending this "adventure".  Then, Hannah yells out and suggests that they pull our boat to the other side. She was intending to tug us! Well, of course that wasn't going to happen!  So me and Mrs. Annette had to become suddenly courageous! Haha... we got through ok.  Ha, that's just a memory I'll always keep. The best thing I love about Hannah though is her steadfast love for God and her undying passion to always do His will no matter the costs. Her obedience to Jesus Christ is unwavering. Also, Hannah doesn't conform to the styles and ways of popularity. She's extremely confident in herself and doesn't care what people think about her. The best way to describe her is some one you can talk to all night about problems or spiritual things and she'll never fall asleep on you, she'll never stop listening. One night we stayed up for hours until 5:00 or so finishing off the birthday cake and talking about our lives and how God is working in us.   ( We were so scared that her sister was going to get mad at us for eating her cake )  One time at camp Hannah woke me up really early and we went for a walk. We just talked and spent time and I'll never forget that day.

Now, my other best friend I was talking about... her name is Tabatha. She loves the outdoors too, but she's mostly an artsy person. She likes knitting and croechetting (sp?)  and sewing and cooking and drawing and playing piano more than anything.  She has a cool old-fashioned personality to her and she loves watching English movies and having tea parties. (I like to say she has mastered the best way to have a tea party.) We have so much fun putting on plays and and baking apple pies! Or sometimes we just sit and talk while I watch her knitt a scarf or a stuffed animal.  Ha, she is always making something!  Oh, and our tradition! We have the funniest little rule that whenever I go to her house, we have to dance to oldies music!!  She turns on the disco ball and the record player and we dance!  So fun!  I'll never forget the time we stayed up and wrote down a list of all the places in the world we wanted to go... including France!  Or the time we came out last in the corn maze... *remembers with a smile*   But the cool thing about Tabatha is her spiritual strength and her devotion to her #1 best friend Jesus. She reads the Bible and lives it out faithfully! The loyalty she has to her friends is amazing. She is some one who will stick by your side through it all. Oh, and the trials that she has taken on!  The way she handles them with strength that is given out to her by God! I would be crying and confused if I had gone through what she is going through now! Her stability and dependence on Jesus is incredible. Her willingness to forgive is completely amazing.

So here we are... Hannah the adventurer, Tabatha the artist, and me... the musical wild thing from squirrelville. How did we become friends? God. He was the One who put us together and keeps our friendship going. I just hope you all have friends like mine, because if you do, life must be a wonderful thing for you!

Jillian

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Posted by Chris

heyo i so get what you mean! me and my gf are like opposite in a ton of ways too, and lots of my friends r like all comp smart and quiet and i am loud and don't know anything about comps....but yeah

thax so much for telling ppl to vote for me!! u rock!!

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