There WILL be a day

I hurt for my friends. Those of you that have read anything I have written about some of them, you know that I am very passionate about their happiness. So much so yes, that I , when provoked, tend to try and solve their problems. It is hard for me to step back and actually not try and let them know they will be ok. I listen, but I tend to opinionate myself instead of just letting them vent. (For that my dear friends, my apologies. )

Today I was thinking about what I will post. For some reason I feel I need to say something to you all every day. Isn't that the point of a blog? Why does it have to be? (Another subject- another post) Point here is solely that I have such a peace in my heart becasue of who I am IN God, that I ache when those around me don't share that with me.

So much around me lately has pointed at me lately telling me to just sit for them. Be here for them. Yesterday I got off work early. As my son was cleaning his room, I turned on the TV. 

Oprah was on.  Her show was about overweight kids and why they eat.  The main question was "WHAT ARE YOU REALLY HUNGRY FOR?"  She had set up for these kids to be in a seminar with their parents and to walk through some exercises. The first exercise was for them to say "If you really knew me you'd know that____________________ " and made them fill in the blank.  The second exercise was where these kids had to face their parents (who were not allowed to do anything other than just be there for them) and they had to say "I'm angry because______________________________________________________".   I was in tears. Most of these kids' pain was simply a reflection for pain they SAW in their parents. NOTHING MORE.

WOW!

Next up was Reba. This episode was all about how her son in law "didn't believe in God" and how that statement upset her whole house. She had taken him to the pastor of their church to be convinved TO believe in God. The pastor said only to Reba  "this isn't about him. This is about you. You need to figure out why"    As they continued talking she realized that she had gone through the same feelings at one point and was nothing more than ashamed of them. He then told her that instead of trying to make her son in law believe, to express to him that she had felt that way too and she understood and allow him to VENT.  The last words out of her mouth to him in the show were " God will wait for you while your mad at him."

Which brings me to an earlier spot in my day. As I drive I like to listen to the different Calvary Chapel sermons that are played on the air. One that I caught yesterday was all about how God understands us all. He has been man. He has been faced with the same temptations, fears and doubts that face each of us every day. HE UNDERSTANDS. Let me say it again- He understands------ BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN A MAN!

I have watched two of my friends in particular, struggle with everything in their lives over the last...... well really, for as long as I  have known them both. What I find funny is the way they both look at the other one as the one with all the problems.  When in all honesty they are both equally messed up. I love them both VERY dearly though. Behind all their pain they are good people. In their cores they are good people. They are just so lost. I have offered so much to them.

Another one of my friends said to me this past Wednesday in service, that these people are drawn to me because I have no drama of my own in my own life (well- yall know the bits of drama I hold, but I mean as a constant) so they are drawn to me as their light.  I really am ok with that, and after yesterday I am in hopes I can approach them all differently.  I am here to help! I know this.

But for the pain they hold, I can only say the following to them (jeremy Camp- I am borrowing your words )