Catching up on 20 years with Nabil and Sarah

There are people in our lives with whom we just click. Even when we don't see them for many years when we finally visit with each other we pick up where we left off so long ago. So it was this past weekend with our friends Sarah and Nabil.
     They live in Beirut (Nabil is of Lebanese decent) where he is the vicar of All Saints Church. We knew Sarah from our time living in Geneva, which is now more than 20 years ago. We attended Crossroads Church together and were part of the singles ministry there.
       Sarah and Nabil reminded me that if my families has "roots" anyway they are in multi-cultural and international settings. Their church community in Beirut has some 30 nationalities, a quite transient group which is always coming and going from that volatile part of the world.
        I dreamed last night that we had moved to Beirut and were doing ministry with Sarah and Nabil in their community. It was surreal, as dreams often are. Perhaps even more so as I think of being a New York Jew living in Lebanon. Sounds like the beginning of a joke!