I caught up with a friend on Saturday.
Keasty was one of the guys who rode with me when I cycled from Perth to Hobart a few years back. He’s from Dubbo in New South Wales but he’s in Perth for a week or so at the moment.
The best way to catch up with a cyclist is on a bike so we arranged to meet up for my regular Saturday morning cycling group ride. After the ride it was time for a coffee and a chin wag at the local café. Nothing lubricates a conversation like a good coffee.
After all the years I’ve been on this earth I’m still amazed by just how good it is to catch up with friends. We spend so much of our time trying to achieve things that will never satisfy and we leave less and less time to connect with the people that are important to us. I hope you took time out over the Easter long weekend to reconnect with friends.
It was so good to be able to spend time with Keasty. We share a number of interests, including cycling, but I guess the thing that helps to add a different dimension to our friendship is our shared faith. I love the small talk and the laughs but I reckon there’s something even more meaningful when you can talk about the deeper stuff of life with a friend.
We met up again yesterday when Keasty dropped in to the radio station where I work. (He even payed for lunch.)
Do you find that you get caught up in the urgency of the day to day routine and miss out on time with friends? Do you wish you could spend more time developing and deepening relationships? Sometimes it’s a matter of looking at what takes up our time and deciding what’s important to us then ordering our diary to reflect that decision.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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Easter weekend was a big catch up for me.
I went away on a camp – and i hadn’t seen some of these people for months, and in some cases years.
One guy i was really happy to catch up with was Jono – if you’d been reading my blog last year you’d have read about Jono.
He fell off his motorcross bike and broke his neck. Doctors said he’d never walk again – but he did (in just over 2 weeks!!!)
these days if you didn’t know Jono, well you wouldn’t even be able to tell he’d had an accident – it’s a complete miracle.
It’s only the second time i’ve caught up with him since he got out of hospital – and the first was about 2 weeks after.
so that was really special – especialy when he kicked a football straight into my head 😛
Praise God he can kick a ball…..
Good post and a good reminder Rodney of how we can put our energies into secondary areas. It was great to catch up with you and meet Pauline, Emily and James. Somehow it feels like I’ve known them all my life!
Take care…. flying at 1:55 pm today.