friendships

I don't have many fiendships, I don't let to many people into my life for fear of...
Being hurt, gossip, trust issues, etc...
So this lead me to a Christian penpal site, and many years ago(6 or 7 now), I got an email from a lady in Australia, she had a young daughter and it was at a time my children were working on Australia for a geography fair,so she and I hit it off real well. God has used her many times to teach me something. Even the fact that I began to open up to her, helped me begin to open up to others. Life has gotten busy for the both of us and we don't email as often and since I no longer have vonage I don't get to call her any more, this I miss a lot. Anyway, the reason I decided to write about Kim is because, she replied to me about my previous blog. Reading her experience showed me, I'm not alone and I'm not taking care of me, I spend so much time doing everything else I'm not spending time with God and I'm not taking the time to take care of my needs. She helped me realize that I must do these things or all areas of my life and relationships are going to suffer.
We all need daily time with our heavenly father and our spouse, children,and we need time for ourselves also and also friends.we need to do it in order and set boundaries, one wise woman told me its ok to say no sometimes. I need to learn to practice that more.

Kim, thank you for your friendship, God put you in my life and I in yours for a reason. I know when I learned you wanted more children but were afraid, I set out to pray for you and you'll never know how excited I was to hear you were pregnant and to know I was able to pray for you continuously during that time and rejoice with you all when yall welcomed Amber Grace into this world. I use to go back and reread our emails but since I deleted that first email account I can't do that anymore but many times you gave me a much needed scripture or words of encouragement and I want to say thank you!!! You were there for me during many hard times and you helped me see things differently and shared a much needed scripture many times that got me right out of my pity slump, I hope we can find more time to communicate.

I know we're all busy now but still I think of you and pray for you often. Your friendship has meant the world to me, I can't wait until the day we meet, whether here or there or in heaven.