Surprises in the Desert

It's amazing who God puts in your path as you travel through the desert.  Manna can come from the strangest places.  This time I found manna from old high school friends.

My desert journey came out in my Facebook postings.  I was so down that I had to express myself somehow.  In reality I wanted to stand on the rooftop and scream out my frustration, but that would bring the cops.  So I posted it there instead.

Several people came forward to help, but the two that broke through ironically were two guys I used to date.  They caught the not so obvious fact that I was in a deep dark place.  Before I knew it, a chat box popped up and one of them asked what was going on.  We began talking about high school and were laughing.  My husband had to check out what was causing this person who was crying only an hour earlier to be laughing so hard.  Even he had to get in on the laugh.

The point I'm trying to make here is not about old relationships or anything like that.  It is that God will bring His light through unexpected places.  For the next couple of days, these guys checked in to see how I was doing.  They encouraged me.  That with the love of my husband helped me begin to see the promised land from a distance where before I doubted it even existed anymore.


Friendship from even years ago can break through where those closest to you cannot.  Why?  Because they are from a different time and are not completely in the picture.  They have a much different view of things.

I began to slip back in the darkness a few days ago and the same two along with a girl that used to go to school with us, too, jumped on board.  I was laughing so hard that I was crying.  God uses amazing people to reach us when we tune Him out.

I'm still struggling, but I'm getting a little spunk back.  I want to thank all those friends of  mine that reached out to me.  You mean a lot and I hope God bless you a hundred fold.