Life Lesson Learned (or Dinner with Marso)

Sheri and I learned a hard lesson Saturday night...but first, a little history.

When I started playing on the worship team at church I was introduced to Marso, affectionately known as the crazy bald cajun. He turned out to be the most intensely real worship guitarist I've ever seen. You couldn't help but tell the Spirit was with him and it was contagious. His awesome wife is a hilarious, country-wide radio personality we never really got to know personally. They have two great children, whose behavior and personalities, make them role models for other kids at church.

FLASHBACK...Do you remember the soft spoken, black, female police officer on the "Policy Academy" movies? You know, the one who was so shy and quiet until she got ticked off and started yelling into her megaphone?

Well, that's their daughter when she gets into her Tae Kwan Do uniform and put's on a demonstration with her brother. I'd take them both for protection anywhere.

So anyway, that's how our relationship went for years until Marso left to play at a new church plant and we started seeing less and less of each other. We'd trade occasional "SUP's" on MySpace and I'd play drums up at his church every once in a while. Late last year Sheri and I left to help start Journey Church and we didn't see the Marso's for a long time.

That was until we heard He was taking an awesome job overseas and that they'd be gone for 3 years! Well now all of a sudden the urgency hit us and we had to spend some time with them. This past Saturday we all met at BD's Mongolian Grill for dinner. After a great meal and conversation we all knew we wanted to hang out longer so we headed over to the bookstore to hang out at their coffee shop. It was a blast!

A few hours later the announcement stating the store would soon be closing came over the PA. What? 10 o'clock already? Once we shared the kind of quick good-bye people do when they don't want to get too emotional Sheri and I hopped into the truck and headed home. On the way I looked at her and said, "Why haven't we been hanging out with them this whole time?"

All those countless opportunities to have a great friendship was lost because we let life get in the way. Don't wait until tomorrow because there might no be one.

Thanks guys, for a great night out. Anything we can do to help, just call us a call and if you're ever visiting let us know. We'll see you in 3 years. Keep in touch, the internet's a great thing!