Currently, I am spending time praying for the well being of my friend, Susan. She's had some scary health concerns of late and today was her birthday. She's my age.
I love her to pieces!
I don't have a lot of people I consider real friends in life, but Susan is one! When I arrived at OHS waaaay back when...after losing my mom then being set out on my own barely 15 years of age, Susan was one of THE only girls in that entire high school to give me the time of day. She was a free spirit and really didn't give a hoot what anyone said or thought.
She and I "hung out" all the time. Skipped year book meetings to ride around and get into mischief and just spend time having what we thought was fun back then. She was more like my sister than just a friend. I called her mom "mom"... and later in life, she was "gramma" to our two kids. She's still going into her 90's!! And Susan is just as wonderful as she's ever been with a lot of "mom" thrown in!
Being considered part of Susan's family was one of my greatest memories and joys. She might not remember half the things that went on back then, but I remember every one of them! You see, when I came to that little community, I was a lost soul. Seriously. And no one even took time to dig beneath the surface to get to know me at all...except for Susan. And she seemed to like me.
Life up to that point had been messy and I was just in limbo. My feelings were all on hold while I tried to make sense of life and go to school and be a "normal" kid (as normal as one can be under the circumstances). And part of my "normal" was having a good friend like Susan. We went to school dances and double dated and even sent for 'paper dresses' ... to wear at the annual Fun Days Celebration! We dodged dates with boys we didn't like and pursued dates w/those we did! And we just had fun, always.
She's someone who thankfully didn't believe the rumors about "the new girl" and set about finding some of the real me inside the shell of a girl that I was then. I am so grateful to her for her loving friendship then and now. She's a special special woman who is needed by her family and today and every day hereafter... there's a block of time set aside to just pray for her restored health and safety!
I may have only had one good friend growing up. It may well be that Susan will go down in the annuls of history as being the best friend a person could ever have. To have rescued the sinking spirit of a lonely and messed up little girl of 15, and brought her through one of the toughest times of her life is quite a feat. She did that. And I will always love her for it!
Feel Better Suz!
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