He Said One Powerful Thing at Just the Right Time
Beautiful advice from my friend who had a health scare.
Teary-eyed, neither the bride nor the groom could get through their speeches without a beautiful display of emotion.
The groom had been on dialysis for years prior and had it difficult in the extreme.
Only recently did he get the kidney transplant he needed. It had been a long road for them both, and she had been with him every step of the way.
Just months into dating, his kidneys began to fail. He underwent a journey that would last years and profoundly alter them both.
I hadn’t met his bride-to-be prior to the wedding.
I also hadn’t seen him in eight years.
The flow of life.
We met in college. We spent almost every day together for four years before our friend group moved from University to the real world.
He moved to Canada. I moved to Spain and then Asia.
You know those friendships where you just see each other again and nothing is different?
They are golden.
But there was something a little different. For the better.
He was mature. The kind that, at least to me, seems like you can only get from a…
