Waiting....

I have a dear, dear friend here in town, and we have gotten closer and closer as time has passed.

Tomorrow they are moving.

I am really sad about it.

I have finally found a friend that loves me for who I am and for what I stand for.

I have finally found a friend who is real.

If she doesn't agree with something I say, she lets me know.

And I can do the same to her, cool, huh?

If I am sad, I call her for a listening ear; she does the same to me.

I don't want to let her go......

I don't want her to go.

But I have to let her go.

I want to enjoy this life and I want to enjoy it with her.

I have friends, but hardly any that I can truly be myself with.

She showed me that life is too dull not to have a true friend!

I am a very reserved person in some cases and with this person, I just can be me.

I don't have to go to bed at night worrying what she thought of me.

A while ago I read a "forward", those irritating things that we get in our e-mails that tell us if we "don't forward it now, you'll be sent to purgatory." (you get the point), and in that forward it talked about different kinds of friends. A true friend, an acquaintance friend, an "I say hi to you at the coffee" shop sort of friend and then one of the last categories is the "God-needed-you-to- be-in-my-life-at-this-very-specific-time-
but-now-you-have-to-go-Friend".

Aren't those the kinds of friends that are always the ones that you wish you could keep forever?

I will miss you, my friend, you have absolutely NO idea how much I needed you in my life.

I thank God for you!

I will miss you just stopping over to talk.

I will miss the openess with which we shared our hearts with each-other.

You have taught me to laugh hysterically at life and you have allowed me to share in some of your pain.

I so appreciate you.

May our arms be able to hug one another again.

And soon.

Exodus 3:8 "So I have come to rescue them from the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own good and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey......."

~B