total funk
AARG! I’m cranky today (well, to be fair, I think I’ve been cranky this week). I seem to be in a funk that I cannot defunk. And today my funk is centered around the immaturity of a friend. A friend that is smart, but her intelligence ceases when it comes to actual human relationships. A woman that is so obsessed with being in love that she shuts every other part of the world out. A woman so obsessed with an idiot that offers empty promises that she tosses aside every conviction she’s ever had to adopt his. Who in pursuit of a dream of the happy family with white picket fence will sacrifice a community that loves her, friends who warn her that she’s making a poor choice, and any other reasoned thought or idea. Wake up girl!
Today I’ve thought a lot about friends. I have such a diverse set of close friends. I am truely blessed. A friend that is an artist and ambitious who works herself ragged to get her family to a warm place that provides for them. A friend who is singlehandedly holding her family together, who still manages to inspire others and laugh as though she’s not at the end of her rope. A friend who is venturing out into the great unkown, and stepping away from the security of what is familiar in order to bring an education to children she doesnt know, and at the same time to provide a better life for her own brood. A friend who left the comfort and stability of home in order to travel to a place she’d never been, selling off nearly all her worldy possessions and saying God is all I need. A woman bringing her beautiful light to a Muslim world in such a beautiful way. And new friends! The Mother hen who makes every person around her feel as though they are God’s most magnificent creation, the single gal who pours herself into her friends and their families who expresses herself through song to bring people to God’s throne, the mom who pours herself out and through humor and wit makes everyone around her so glad they know her.
I suppose with such a company of wonderful friends I can offer more grace to the one who is crazy and self centered. The one who has never encountered a crisis so creates ones out of parties and minute offenses. Who has become so harsh you cant see Christ shining through her life. Who is determined to be perfect, with the perfect life. Sigh, oh girl. Mess up your hair a little and live! Enjoy the mess with the rest of us!
