I was just thinking of you!

For a couple of weeks now I've had the feeling that I needed to go into a little store near my house. They have fun things, but I'm pretty poor right at the moment and I couldn't figure out why I would have that feeling. Well, today, I found out. I had a few free minutes and decided to go there. Within 10 seconds of entering the store someone called my name. I turned to see a friend that I haven't seen for more than a year. We had been in CNA training together, and along with another girl, had become good friends. I had lost contact with her and was a little sad about it, but didn't really know how to find her and let it go.

I was more than just a little surprised to see her today, and very happy. As I approached her, she and the woman she was helping at the register both started to laugh. She told me that she had just been saying to the other woman, "You remind me of someone." Then, she had said my name out loud and looked up to see me walking in. I can honestly say that I've never had an experience quite like that. It takes the "right place at the right time" scenario to a whole new level. I was really glad to see her, but even more? She really needs a friend. It surprised me how many of her concerns I can be of assistance with. I wished that I had listened to that little voice in my heart just a little sooner. On the other hand. . . the timing today did make for a pretty great story.

Here's what I've been thinking about since then. We just never know who we've touched, and how deeply. I've been very grateful to be back in touch with many of you recently. I hope that a priority for me will always be to let my friends know what they mean to me. I feel that a great deal of the loneliness and struggle in life would ease if we leaned a little more on each other, sharing not just our joys, but the mundane as well as the pain. Life is difficult, but life is precious and we each matter deeply to Our Heavenly Father. The fact that I was drawn into that store at the precise moment a friend needed me speaks the truth of that to me. What I want you to know most of all is that YOU matter to me. I hope I can be there for you when YOU need me, as well.

Have a GREAT day!