Friends are those who mean a lot to me and I will be there for them through anything that they might be going through. One such person is someone who I met three years ago during our Freshman year of College. Now this girl has been through a lot growing up all the way to now and I have been there for her when she needed someone to talk to or rant to because that is the person I am. I have learned a lot from her and I have also learned when to take a step back to give her space when she needs it.
I remember one time during college I went to go down to her room to ask her something and when I got there I noticed that the door was locked. She always has the door unlocked and allows me to just walk in when it is unlocked (the only times she actually locked it was when she had to leave campus and when she went to bed at night), but I realized that something might have happened for it to be locked during the day so I just walked away instead of trying to get her to open the door because I knew that I wasn't going to push anything till she wanted to talk.
God has been a huge part of our friendship because we both believe that He brought us together and it ended up being just that. There have been a handful of times where we would have hours of, what we called, God talks and they were always really deep when they happened. Sometimes we will be having a regular conversation and then somehow it will turn into a talk about God without either us knowing about it.
One time we were sitting in her doorway towards the end of the school year talking about things and then it turned into talking about Sin. It started to really mess with her and I ended up showing her a clip from the movie War Room when the character Elizabeth was telling Satan to leave her house and her family alone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk_m7HUoaUA&t=68s
We shut the door to go in the room because she didn't want to have the conversation in the hallway anymore. After the clip ended we talked about how powerful that scene is and how it made us feel. We also discussed the analogy between God + Satan and what it "feels like" being stuck between the two. It is like the game of Tug-of-War in the sense that we want or need to follow God, but the temptation of Satan/sinning is also present and we are being pulled in two different directions.
There has been days when we weren't talking about serious stuff and we were just having fun. Like one time we were going to the movies, but we didn't want to buy popcorn there because it was expensive. We decided to go buy two big bags of Brim's popcorn instead, so we can sneak it in. The problem was how to transport it without getting caught, but it was proving difficult. Finally she just gave up, emptied her purse of everything, and then just dumped the popcorn in her purse. It worked and nobody knew what we did.
Another time I was going to go with her to her sister's basketball game with her brother and little cousin. We had to drop her sister off at the school and there was still time before we had to be at the place where the game was taking place at, so we decided to go McDonald's to eat. The McDonald's we ended up going to had a play place in it and we played in it even though we were like nineteen at the time, but we didn't care because we just wanted to have fun.
She means a lot to me and our friendship is something I want to hold onto because we just get along so well. We can talk about anything with each other and we will listen to one another. I am blessed that God brought us together and I am sure that He has great things for us.
I remember one time during college I went to go down to her room to ask her something and when I got there I noticed that the door was locked. She always has the door unlocked and allows me to just walk in when it is unlocked (the only times she actually locked it was when she had to leave campus and when she went to bed at night), but I realized that something might have happened for it to be locked during the day so I just walked away instead of trying to get her to open the door because I knew that I wasn't going to push anything till she wanted to talk.
God has been a huge part of our friendship because we both believe that He brought us together and it ended up being just that. There have been a handful of times where we would have hours of, what we called, God talks and they were always really deep when they happened. Sometimes we will be having a regular conversation and then somehow it will turn into a talk about God without either us knowing about it.
One time we were sitting in her doorway towards the end of the school year talking about things and then it turned into talking about Sin. It started to really mess with her and I ended up showing her a clip from the movie War Room when the character Elizabeth was telling Satan to leave her house and her family alone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk_m7HUoaUA&t=68s
We shut the door to go in the room because she didn't want to have the conversation in the hallway anymore. After the clip ended we talked about how powerful that scene is and how it made us feel. We also discussed the analogy between God + Satan and what it "feels like" being stuck between the two. It is like the game of Tug-of-War in the sense that we want or need to follow God, but the temptation of Satan/sinning is also present and we are being pulled in two different directions.
There has been days when we weren't talking about serious stuff and we were just having fun. Like one time we were going to the movies, but we didn't want to buy popcorn there because it was expensive. We decided to go buy two big bags of Brim's popcorn instead, so we can sneak it in. The problem was how to transport it without getting caught, but it was proving difficult. Finally she just gave up, emptied her purse of everything, and then just dumped the popcorn in her purse. It worked and nobody knew what we did.
Another time I was going to go with her to her sister's basketball game with her brother and little cousin. We had to drop her sister off at the school and there was still time before we had to be at the place where the game was taking place at, so we decided to go McDonald's to eat. The McDonald's we ended up going to had a play place in it and we played in it even though we were like nineteen at the time, but we didn't care because we just wanted to have fun.
She means a lot to me and our friendship is something I want to hold onto because we just get along so well. We can talk about anything with each other and we will listen to one another. I am blessed that God brought us together and I am sure that He has great things for us.
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