When Best Friends Visit…

My dear, dear friend, Karla Dornacher (www.karladornacher.com) is also an artist, author and speaker.  She is coming to visit me tomorrow with her husband Michael.  All four of us are great friends and have so much fun together that it's like a long slumber party when we visit!

You can tell my warped sense of priorities in that I've spent all week cleaning up my gardens, and am only now thinking about my house.  But you know someone is a great friend, when you don't have to worry at all about your house when she comes to visit (well, maybe you sweat a little tiny bit about your bathrooms Embarassed).  Because you know she's coming to visit you, not to inspect your cupboards!  We'll talk way too late into the night.  Last time when we visited them at their Washington State home, Michael fell asleep first in his lazy boy, Steve lasted about an hour longer and then drug himself to bed.  The two of us talked until about 2 AM like a couple of teenagers!!!

So, if my posts are a little light over the next few days, IT'S ALL KARLA'S FAULT!

God is totally rearranging Karla's life.  She's beginning to move from artist/author to author/speaker as the focus of her life and ministry.  I have heard her speak several times and she is amazing.  She's deep, she's funny and she speaks profound truths with great simplicity that penetrates the heart.  If your women's group at church is having a retreat or a meeting that you plan to bring a speaker in for, you will not be disappointed.  She speaks with depth of experience, knowledge of God's word and a passion to make a difference in women's lives. 

Karla is working this year on living "A Year to Remember." Which has meant taking time to evaluate her life and activities and let God change her and fully direct her path.  "Living on purpose and with a purpose," has become a focus for her own life and I sense perhaps she's learning so that she can help the rest of us along the journey too. 

Part of that process is this two-week trip with no set schedule or plans, just meandering and enjoying each other's company and the Lord's direction.  Doesn't that sound like fun?  She's working on finding her focus, letting go of those things in life that are good ideas, but not the best and seeking where she can best be useful in the Lord's hands. 

I'll make sure we take lots of pictures and will post them here.  We'll take some next to the giant Sequoias so that you can see how really, really, really big they are.  They're the ONLY THING IN LIFE that you can see as a little child and then as a adult and will still seem as big to you as you remembered!  Have a great day!

Audrey Jeanne Roberts 

5 thoughts on “When Best Friends Visit…”

  1. tell her all her list/blog friends say HI and you two have a great time! wish I could be there LOL.
    🙂

  2. What a blessing to have such a wonderful and profound life long friend. It is so great that you can connect so deeply with her. Enjoy each other’s company. Can’t wait to see pictures.

  3. Hope the 2 of you have a great time together. Old friendships are the best!!! Tell her your Daisie friends said HI.

  4. Oh sounds like a wonderful friend and time you two will be having. My best friend is the same way and I love her to no end. Have a great time and yes take lots of pics :)!

  5. I just started visiting Karla’s site a few months ago when you mentioned her to us. I love the things she has for sale on her website! I hated to see she was going to be gone (being a little selfish here as I saw some things I really would like to buy, I’m saving up for them though). I know she is doing what God wants her to do, so she will be greatly blessed and in the end so will we!

    I hope you guys have a ball while she’s there. Give her a hug from me, someone she doesn’t know at all, but has impacted in a big way – as a matter of fact have her give you a hug too AJ cause you have done the same!

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