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Antion August 4, 2007

Posted by Anya in : Uncategorized , 2comments

I know, I’m a day late here.  We were away all day yesterday, and I didn’t have this post ready to go because I couldn’t think of what to say.

What can you write about someone who has been a friend for half of your life?  There are far too many memories… yes, serious ones as well as silly ones (that may be hard to believe if you’re  a faithful follower of the quotes on my other blog)… to compress them into one blog entry. 

Antion has taught me a lot.  Some of these lessons have been taught to me in other ways, but he has managed to personify them.  Some of them were pretty unique.  That debating is good, but that having someone who agrees with you when you’re tired of debating is even better.  That searching after God means really searching, and sometimes really pushing through stuff that you’d rather leave buried.  That following God means giving up what you want and doing what He wants.  That ”when humans words fail, God’s words can start… but we have to stop trying to speak and be still before him in order for him to talk…but its the trying to stop speaking that always gets me”.  That Casting Crowns and Bible Quizzing are very cool things.  That there are other people crazy enough who will discuss original sin and Ivanhoe in the same night… in the swimming pool.  Yeah.  That things will be done in groups that you’d never do alone… whether that’s attempting to quiz in Spanish or introduce yourself to everyone in your hotel. 

There have been many other things that he’s taught me.  But some of the best things are just in the things he’s been willing to do.   Willing to spend three hours writing an email to remind me to trust God when I found out that my Grandpa had terminal cancer.  Willing to look silly in the middle of a serious conversation so that we could laugh.  Willing to just talk when we were both unhappy.

Antion’s been a good friend.  He makes me laugh.  We can have conversations that are serious and then funny and then funnier, because we’re just being random.  And then serious again.  A lovely section from a convo, and then I’ll end this post…

Antion (10:40:46 PM):well.. sounds kinda like me precellphone

 Me (10:41:02 PM):what do I do to get that reaction… you did the same thing to me when I called that one time about quiz practice?

Me (10:41:22 PM):oh yeah, now with the cell you’re talking on it AND to someone else at the same time!  Big improvement!

Antion (10:41:30 PM):lol oh yeah

Antion (10:41:31 PM):skill

Me (10:41:40 PM):ADD

Antion (10:43:22 PM):you or me?

Me (10:43:33 PM):haha

Me (10:43:38 PM):um… yes?

Antion (10:43:39 PM):lol

Antion (10:43:45 PM):i like salt on my steak

Antion (10:43:48 PM):do you?

Me (10:43:51 PM):although I don’t

Me (10:43:58 PM):Oooh shiney!

Me (10:43:59 PM):what?

Antion (10:44:26 PM):my paintball gun is covered with dirt

Me (10:44:33 PM):yay

Me (10:44:44 PM):(i shouldn’t have reminded him, should I?)

Antion (10:44:56 PM):lol

Me (10:45:00 PM):do you seriously like salt on steak?

Antion (10:45:00 PM):yeah i do

Antion (10:45:01 PM):dont you?

Me (10:45:15 PM):never occured to me to try it…

Me (10:45:23 PM):but peanut butter on fritos is good

Antion (10:46:30 PM):that sounds good

Antion (10:46:38 PM):peanut butter pickles sandwiches are good

Me (10:46:45 PM):yes they are!

Me (10:47:03 PM):who ever said we can’t cook?

Antion (10:48:29 PM):well… you know the cant make jello blowing stuff up in the microwave might have made them a little suspicious