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Gun’s Quote-of-the-Week:

“Remember that who you are with is always more important than where you are.”

-LLIC 2008

As we were driving along in his brand new Toyota Prius V, Ron and I were talking about the weddings that we had this summer.

There was, of course, the wedding that we were both driving to on Saturday: My friend and Ron’s cousin, Joe and his wife-to-be, Lindsey. Come July, a mutual friend, Nick and his fiancée, Rachel. August would be Chris and Alice, both friends.

Ron gets married in November.

Everytime I go to Michigan, and it seems I will be there a lot this summer, I stop to wonder if perhaps I made a small miscue by returning to Kansas. A great deal of my life lives in that state. My deepest friendships and the maturity of my faith developed there, to say nothing of the education that I received both formally and informally. The fact that all of the weddings that I have either been invited to or will be standing in all Summer in that state is perhaps that largest indicator of this.

If I lived there, of course, I would then be buying plane tickets for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter to come back home, and let’s not forget that I have family members that get married, too.

This is not a miscue; this is a blessing. At the end of the day, I have two homes which are filled with loving and supportive friends and family. I have a job which permits me to travel enough to visit both. Yes, sacrifices must be made in order to achieve this but people are more important than places or the logistics of moving from one to the other. It is a struggle, but I would rather have the struggle of scrapping up the cash for weekend visits vs. having no one to visit at all.

The priority of friends is occasionally tough, but keep them as a priority. Your life remains rich when you invest in them, even if your bank account is broke from investing in the airlines these days, too. (Average airfare between Kansas City and Grand Rapids or Detroit? $450!) There is no excuse for allowing something which has impacted your life so greatly from dying off. Your relationships are more important than your location.

Invest.

…and that’s why it’s a Gun’s Quote!