I am and have been blessed by Those Friends.
You know, Those Friends that have been…there!
Those times…
The friend who literally stood by my back. Held me as I sobbed, after the doctors and I agreed, we needed to take my mom off of the machines.
The friend who brought her famous macaroni and cheese and her tears and her hugs after my dad died…even though she never knew him.
The friends that would take your kids without question, because you needed help.
The friends that knew when you might need coffee or wine or both, just not at the same time.
I have been blessed by Those Friends…
but what do you do when you do not have Those Friends?
…or life has moved you to a place and now you are isolated…
…and do not like to ask for help.
How we know this family is a long story, but they trust us.
There is the Mom who has brain cancer…a 14-year-old, a 10-year-old and a toddler.
I had Veterans day off. I had big plans. I was going to go to the parade and I was going to sew.
God had bigger plans…
…and humbled me by my ‘problems’.
We got a call to be Those Friends.
The Mom was having vertigo and had taken Dramamine, and the toddler had gotten into it as well.
We met them at the ER. My Loving Spouse fed the older kids and took them home, so they could be the kids, not the adults.
I stayed to be the adult…to be transported in the back of an ambulance with somebody else’s child.
Hearing Jesus’ words…
“When you have done it for the least of me…”
The truth is…it was easy to do it, to care for the child, he was going to be fine.
It is harder to look at their life.
I cannot fix brain cancer.
I cannot fix broken families.
I cannot fix much.
I like problems that can be fixed with ice cream…or coffee or a glass of wine.
As I said to My Loving Spouse as he drove me home that night,
“How do relief workers do it?”
The enormity of the problem…the situation…
I lean on wise words shared with me…
Just for today…
Do what I can do…just for today…
Always grateful for Those Friends of mine.
You are without a doubt one of those friends! The best angels are the ones here on Earth walking through life WITH us!!!!
Thank you to one who is also one of Those Friends. I was truly anointed with God’s loving angel power, as the baby drank the charcoal from me (which he really shouldn’t have done) and the nurses were so impressed…a God Thing!