"Wow, I thought you died?"

"That's not nice."

"Well, where have you been?"

"Dude,  really busy."

"With what?"

"Work, school, home,  you know?"

"Yeah.  I know. I miss you though."

"Me too."

"So when can we get together and just talk?

"Not sure, life is just really busy."

"Well, you need to make time for your friends."

"Yea…I know."

"Hit me up, when you are not too busy."

"Alright.  Peace Out."

"Hang in there."

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~BREAKING NEWS~

One killed, three seriously hurt in rollover crash

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"I can't believe I wrote that last night."

"Wrote what?"

"I asked him, if he died?"

"Why did you do that?"

"Cause I hadn't talked to him in months, and I missed hanging out."

"And now he is dead…REALLY?."

"Yea."

"Wow, how surreal is that?"

"It's not surreal, it's real."

"So now what?"

"We make time for conversation."

* This is based off of a TRUE  conversation on Facebook,  between a young man and a female  friend  24 hours before he passed away in a tragic car accident. 10/8/11.   May it serve as an encouragement and reminder to all of us to not to let the busyness of this life  find us in a place  where we forget the intentionality of relationships.  The ones that mean the most to us.   We must remember that Christ came to build relationship and he did it with meaning, design and forethought. It is the relationship that makes us who we are, not the education, paycheck or material items we have or serve. Jesus came that we might have life and that more abundantly.  May your abundance be found in the fellowship you have with the ones who surround you.

May you not leave beautiful places for conversation to empty benches.

In memory of:

Felix Arguelles

1991- 2011.

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