More and more I
feel like I am starting things off but I am realizing as I get older that there
are just times that you realize things…
There are just
times that you realize:
·
A touch
is sometimes the one thing that helps someone make it another moment
·
A smile
can make a difference
·
A laugh
can change your whole mood
·
A
thought about a friend might mean that they need you
·
A mood
is contagious
·
Sometimes
you just aren’t okay
·
It’s
okay to not be okay
·
There
are times that when you help someone you won’t have the words
·
There
are some people that you want to be there when the walls come crashing down
even when you don’t want to have to be weak in front of them… when you are
secretly wishing they will go home and be there at the same time.
This came to my
mind this week as I have had two events that have reinforced them in my heart…
The 1st
one is from a friend who had a book given to her and she started to read it and
after reading it for a bit, she knew in her heart it wasn’t time for her to
read the book but she thought of me and my heart. The questions that secretly I have been
asking her and myself, struggling to find the answers but asking them still,
struggling to find a reason. She made it
one chapter and brought it to me, I took the book home and after reading the
second chapter I sent her a message.. See in the book the author writes
something that I very well could have penned.
I have felt the same feelings, thought the same thoughts and cried
almost the same tears. Secretly though,
here this author wrote them for the whole world to know… for me to know, for a
friend to feel the prompting of God to lend me a book that I didn’t ask
for. Needless to say, 3 days later she
found the book on her desk returned to her waiting for the day that her heart
is ready to read it.
The 2nd
one is from another friend, well actually two.
I went to church last night and while the class was going on I had a
friend on each side me. We were listening
and taking notes of the references that were being given. Every few minutes the speakers would say
something and the one on the right would tickle my ribs, and then a few minutes
later the friend on my left would kick my leg.
God knew I needed to hear from the speakers but he also knew that I
needed to have people near me, I needed the touch, I needed them to remind me
that I wasn’t alone. While we were
closing in prayer one of them reached over and firmly held my hand. Instantly I knew that at that moment, God was
healing a bit of me… the tickling, the kicking, the smiles, the eye rolls, the
holding hands and the prayers. God was
touching me and healing just a little bit of my heart. I never thought that I would have people in my life like the two that were with me at the table and yet not only do I have them in my life but God is using them to move me to the next step in my journey.
See these are two
things to remind me that we aren’t alone; we are not meant to walk this path,
this life by ourselves. We are called to
be friends, to love at all time, to be there no matter what, to love on, to
help and to pick up. To listen to
friends when they say things that are from their hearts, to love them when they
think you are going to hate you for it.
I want to be that friend; I want to be the one that is known as being nonjudgmental,
loving and caring. I want to be there, I
want to walk the path with my friends holding their hands, praying for them and
loving on them. Why because I know how
important it is. I know that we need it
and it is so very important. That touch matters
that a smile matters, a pm/text matters, a letter matters, being there matters
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