#6 - Beckie

Just an update if you've just tuned in- I took a leaf out of Kristen A's blog from last Thanksgiving (someone filled me in and I thought, hey, that's a really cool idea! bonne idee! hehe) and, for the entire month of November, I'm writing about one person / group / thing that I'm thankful for. So here we go :]



I've known Beckie Kozy since I was about four years old. She's always been about ten times more outgoing and loud than Emily- I remember this one time, I don't know how old I was, when me and Emily used to hang out and trade stickers (it was an intense process, man) and Beckie just sort of popped up in the middle of it wearing... well I don't even remember exactly what she was wearing, but it was crazy, and she decided (somewhat forcefully) that we were going to play dress-up instead. After that, me and Emily moved our stickers to the bus :]

So was there a point to that story? Not really, I just thought it was funny. But while Emily is quiet, paitent, and studious like no one else ever, Beckie is a little more human. That's made her more of an example for me. God has used Beckie to remind me that a Christian doesn't have to be a perfectly clean-cut, follows-every-rule kind of person to have real, living faith. I admire how much she cares about people and isn't afraid to be friends with everyone and anyone, whatever they look like or believe. We're not all that much alike, but as long as we've known each other Beckie's always taken time to ask me how it's going, how my faith's doing, even hold me accountable every once in a while which is a BLESSING times about fifty-seven. Plus she brightens a walk home like nobody I know- it gets a little quiet with me, Emily and Dan :]