Have you ever had friends who were just too great for words? I have those! A lot of those actually, but two stand out that I want to tell you about. My Peggy and my Jennifer!
I met them both around the same time in 1998 at our home church named Spirit of Praise at the time. Peggy was a freshman in college and Jennifer was her best friend that she would drag along to youth group with a chubby little fellow named Matt that was just too cute for words. Matt, now Adrienne's husband, is Jennifer's brother. He serves no point in this blog other than he's just tooo cute for words and now has a daughter with those same little cute cheeks you still want to pinch even though he's all of 23 years old now.
Peggy was a snob! Let me rephrase that...a SPIRITED YOUNG THING (who thought she knew it all!) We bumped heads immediately, me being on the LOL...colorful choir i was in could see every MOCKING face she would make from center stage. I sure didn't like her and she sure didn't like me.
I recall being in a play where i played a DOG! But a dog named...PRINCESS ;) LOL I remember being in the back room dressed and ready to go on and she came to me saying..."I owe you an apology!" Blew me away!!! ME??? AN APOLOGY??? OK! I still don't like you...but OK! LOL. Her mom would beg me to call her..."You need to call Peggy. You should get together." Oh...OK! As to say...THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! But smile and nod politely and move on.
I remember a few years passing and she really needing someone to be there for her. Seeing as Jennifer had become my new found best friend of two years and no longer hers, i reached out to her, she hugged me as if i knew her for years. As i began to speak with her i realized we had more in common than even she had thought! Aw heck, this girls done experienced everything i've been through...SHE'S MINI ME!!!! AS IF TO SAY...Crap now i have to like her. ;p
Her and Jennifer immediately rekindled their friendship and Peggy was given a job with me in Houston. Yup...I taught her how to turn on a computer! Glory days, glory days i tell you!!! That lasted all of 9 months and she began the position she still holds till today at another company. But she will always be a little tree of righteousness planted by the waters whose leaves never wither! Me...well, she calls me BIG OAK! LOL So that makes me a BIG TREE of Righteousness!
Jennifer was a wild child. She came with Peggy like i said, but usually reaking of smoke! No bueno in the Christian world. As i got to know her i just fell in love with her positiveness! She's amazing, loving, giving, wise. She was the bomb from the get go, of course still reaking of Smoke! LOL
I say she became my best friend of two years (RACHEL DON'T FREAK YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN MY BEST FRIEND SINCE THEN, BUT KAY AND HER WERE BEFORE YOU!) but really, she was everyones best friend. I like to call her the Networker...you know those Verizon Commercials with the whole networks behind the spokesman??? Jennifer's that spokesman, "can you hear me now??" LOL Just a very caring person who gives the best hugs! We call her Tibbs cause she's so irresisTIBle...but i like to spell it with two B's. (so sue me!)
For a long time, i needed no help, (ok, i'm going to wink that other eye.) I was the counselor, the strong one if you will, the go to girl for prayer. For a long time I held such a high position (probably only in my own little mind) that if i hung around any of the youth, they would stop respecting me, you know once they saw how immature i really was! ;) ok, now you wink your eye too! So i felt seperated from the flock...I like to think of it as EAGLE status! (pfff) So somewhere along this path, I must have lost all respect in GOD's eyes cause i'm now just a regular old Joe with a bunch of friends i don't even have enough time to hang around! haha...wink again!! (And i mean that!)
These two girls have seen and prayed me through so much! Whenever i was lonely, they went out of their way to make me feel loved. Whenever i was hurting all they had to say was...ITS GOING TO BE OK!!! And that's all i needed to hear! Everytime my dad went into that hospital...well they joined together in there only little Corporate prayer and BELIEVED! I love them so much and am blessed the LORD gave them to me (AND YOU TOO RACHEL...No te pones selosa!) ;p But seriously, i don't know where i would be without two such wonderful people in my life!
YOU'RE THE BEST!!!!
