I would like to briefly recount a few times that the Lord used my friends to reach down and surround me with His love in a way that was "just like Jesus," unmistakably Him.
When I got my wisdom teeth out my dad took me home and then went to the store to fill my scripts before the novacaine wore off. My mom was working and so my little brother and sister were the only ones home with me. My mouth was completely numb and apparently my gauze was completely soaked because the next thing I knew I was drooling blood. My poor younger sibs were staring at me wide eyed not sure what to do and I was sure that I would not be able to change the gauze on my own. At that moment there was a knock at the door and my mom's best friend walked in. She had come over with a stack of movies for me to watch. She changed that nasty gauze for me and reassured us all simply by her presence. I remember thinking, "that is true love."
Another time that was maybe a year or two ago I was at church and feeling very alone. I had just listened to a sermon on marriage and was feeling a bit forgetten. I was walking quickly to the nursery to find my sister trying to hold back the tears when a young man who had recently graduated from the high school youth group that I help lead, called my name. I turned around almost reluctantly, and he said "Megan, I just want to tell you how special you are and how much you mean to me as a friend and leader." He gave me a hug and held on as I sobbed tears of joy that the Lord had not forgotten me.
Recently at work one day I was choking back tears as I read an email from a friend that brought me joy and heartache. I was trying to slip unnoticed into the back when my co-worker caught me. She offered the words of encouragement that I needed right then as one who has shared the same mingled joys and pains.
I am sure that I have more stories to tell, and as I think of them I will share because they are really testimonies of this great truth: WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS!!
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