Last weekend I had the privilege of spending some time with my nieces, Maggie and Roslyn. What a joy to hang out with a four year old and 6 week old! It was bliss. And if you have you ever had the opportunity to be with a little person, it does put everything in perspective.

Maggie (4 yrs old) and I were laying on my bed just chatting about Junior Kindergarten and her new friends. Life is simple at four. Recess is a highlight because that is when she gets to see her friend who is in a different class. But, she informs me she has met new friends and she even has a Senior Kindergarten buddy, who has been assigned with the task to help Maggie navigate the big world of JK.

What a wonderful idea to have a buddy who is just a little further ahead who can help you avoid the pitfalls that inevitably come when entering the unknown.

Maggie has now become good friends with her SK buddy, who is “kind and very helpful”.

Don’t we all need an SK buddy?? Someone who has been through what we are about to go through? Someone “kind and very helpful”?

For those of us in the church we can often find an SK buddy in a Life Group, someone who is like minded and who may be going through or has gone through something that we are experiencing.

And of course, as we discovering each Sunday in our series entitled Been there, done that….Jesus has also gone through much of what we are experiencing as well. Heartache, temptation, betrayal (the list goes on), Jesus know, and Jesus understands.

Maggie assures me that having a SK buddy is “really good”.

Find yourself a SK buddy!

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“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.” John 15:12-15 ESV