So, this girl keeps pestering me to blog, and once upon a time she wrote a little lovepost for me, so I figure this is long overdue.
There's this girl. I met her three months ago, actually committed to living with her without knowing who she was at all. I prayed about this fervently... "God, give me a sister through this." Well, God didn't disappoint.
I like to think I'm fairly open with people, but there's a side to me so few people know, and even less would see through, and she does. We've both come through places of struggle and drought into a place where we can see that God has been shaping us into beautiful women all along.
This girl is real. She doesn't hesitate to hold me accountable, which is exactly what I need. She gets excited about the same things that excite me. The night that I broke down and cried and yelled out to God in my room, the one where she could have written me off as crazy... she knocked. She listened. The moment after the hardest  decision I've made in a year, she was right by the door when I walked in to hug me. We've made food together, ravaged Value Village for hideously awesome eighties outfits, and I know that whenever she asks what my problem is, I can answer "Well, I kill people, and I eat hands... that's two things...".... she will get it! We've been able to cry together, pray together, grow together.... and God can do more out of that as the year goes on!
Here's to you Amanda. A true answer to prayer!