Believe 2nd Draft

I believe in the power of friendship. Friends who are there for you when no one else is. Friends that share your crazy sense of humor and see the good in you when you don’t even see the good in yourself. Friends that laugh at your jokes when they are not funny and love you when you don’t love yourself. Friends that encourage you and push you to be better and will listen when you just need to vent. I believe friends keep you feeling young and young at heart.

I believe friends are a blessing from God. He has put some wonderful friends in my path when I needed them the most. Going through the lowest times in my life, I realized who my true friends were, my family. My family was there for me when no one else was. The push me on and encourage me to follow my dreams and tell me it is possible. 

God put my best friend in my life at a time that I needed her the most. After coming out of the lowest time in my life, I had a little girl and my family but no close friends. That is when Amber came along. She needed a bestie just as bad as I did. She has been the person I go to when I need to talk about anything (after my mom), and is always there when I fall.  Amber gets my jokes and even laughs to make me feel better and I do the same for her. She tells me that I am enough and makes me see that I need to love myself because that is the way God made me. She has encouraged me to better myself and supported me when I decided to go back to school. She is always making me laugh and showing me that you have to find the humor in the bad to make it better. Even finding the humor in dating a bunch of ‘frogs’ before we find our prince.

Friendship can come from your own child. My sweet Gabby girl has been a type of friend to me in her short 4 years of life. She keeps me on my toes and keeps me acting young (though I feel old while doing it), and is always helping me see the light in this dark world. Weather its dancing to the Tangled’s over song or climbing up on the big slide at Jump Mania, she keeps me going. Some days are harder than others. Being a single parent is hard but it is worth it!  God brought her to me when I was at my lowest of lows. I was able to crawl out of this dark hole I was in which has only improved our relationship. She is one of the only things in this world that makes sense to me.

Watching the friendship between two four year old girls who have been friends their whole lives is amazing! Gabby has a best friend named Charleigh and we consider them to be sisters more than friends. The girls fight like crazy but when another kid says something about the other, they get very defensive. Gabby was sick one day and missed preschool and a little boy told Charleigh that Gabby was not sick. Charleigh did not like that very much and slugged the kid in the face! I’m not saying it’s good for her to hit but I do think it is great that she stood up for her friend. The list of their friendship could go on and on. I will just add that I am completely exhausted after having the two of them together!

The friendship bond between a mother and daughter is very strong. Not just my own daughter but my mother. She is so amazing and there is no way that I could describe her. I model everything after her. I strive to be as good of a cook as she is. She is always telling me that she believes in me and how proud she is of me. She was there with me along the way and still loves me. She believed that I could come out of the lifestyle I was in. She supported me when I was in the hospital with an eating disorder and basically dying. She supported me when I got pregnant and turned my back on her. She was still there. It has strengthened our bond so much. She is one of the strongest women I know. You should see her shovel snow! She can lift more than some men I know. I am so blessed to be her daughter.

The strongest friendship of mine comes from my Lord and Savior. He knows everything about me and still loves me. I am constantly talking to him every day and know that he is listening. He has blessed me continually more than I have ever imagined and is continuing to everyday. He has a purpose for me and I can’t wait to see more of what that is.

Friendship has played a huge role in my journey. It has seen me through some really hard times. My friendships keep me going and continue to show me that I am enough. I might need to hear it over and over again like many women. But the base of friendship has to be love. I can honestly say that all of the people that I consider to be my true friends, I love.