SUCH TIMES

Cried a ton tonight.  Cried for friendship.  We take it for granted.  I know, Some days I've jokingly uttered, "can we see each other after 6months? cos I'm tired of seeing y'all. 😂" Tonight I cried.  Not because I've lost them but because I look back  and I look around me, and I go to sleeep smiling most days, because of God's hand on my life through friendship.  Honestly for a generally introverted person like me,  I dont know how I would have survived the oddest of odds over the years without the gift of friendship;  without being able to call/ txt someone up and tell them about my life without judgement or fear;  or just having someone who was willing to listen without interjecting or posing threat or fear;  or someone who was open to just 'being there' or 'being present', no strings attached other than the often unspoken promise of 'its okay I gotchu regardless', 'I gotchu. Your mess won...

                                                         Anna is a Vanuatu girl I met in Vanuatu on a mission project with CRUFIJI back in 2012. Two years ago in a Tamavua bus, I happened to sit next to her. This girl was on her phone. 15 minutes in to the bus ride, this girl taps me on my hand, and says, "Excuse me, is this you?" My EYES went from her phone screen to her face to the phone screen and back at her. "wait what?" I was out of this world confused, scared maybe and just a little shocked. My MIND lol! thinking, what in the world? why is she showing me this? is she stalking me? is this a joke? 😂  I admit, I also thought of going to a different seat, I mean I FREAKED!                        She was showing me group photos of us i...