week from hell

as if I didn’t have enough going on in life, Friday the place I was working at saw fit to have the agency I was working through (no, they couldn’t even tell me themselves) call and tell me I was no longer working there…nice huh?
not that I didn’t see it coming, I had been given the heads up a few days before by someone outside my department…but I was still very upset…even though I had been wondering since my old boss left, I guess I don’t have to do that anymore now, huh?
so enough of the pity party…I was cleaning out old emails today and came across this, I’m sure She has already posted it on her site, but with all my friends and I have been through here lately, I wanted to remind them what they mean to me…

TO THE WONDERFUL WOMEN IN MY CIRCLE
When I was little, I used to believe in the concept of one best friend, and then I started to become a woman. And then I found out that if you allow your heart to open up, God would show you the best in many friends.
One friend’s best is needed when you’re going through things with your children. Another friend’s best is needed when you’re going through things with your momma. Another when you want to shop, share, heal, hurt, joke, or just be.
One friend will say let’s pray together, another let’s cry together, another let’s fight together, another let’s walk away together.
One friend will meet your spiritual need, another your shoe fetish, another your love for movies, another will be with you in your season of confusion, another will be your clarifier, another the wind beneath your wings.
But whatever their assignment in your life, on whatever the occasion, on whatever the day, or where ever you need them to meet you with their gym shoes on and hair pulled back or to hold you back from making a complete fool of yourself… those are your friends.
It may all be wrapped up in one woman, but for many it’s wrapped up in several… one from 7th grade, several from high school, several from the college years, a couple from old jobs, several from church, on some days your mother, on others your sisters, and on some days it’s the one that you needed just for that day or week that you needed someone with a fresh perspective, or the one who didn’t know all your baggage, or the one who would just listen without judging… those are good best friends.
I thank my girlfriends, those who honor intimacy, those who hold trust, and those who hold me up when life is just too heavy! The special bond we share is unique.
Thanks for the words we’ve shared. The prayers we’ve sent up. The laughs, the tears, the phone calls, the emails, the shopping, the movies, the lunches, the dinners, the talking, talking, talking and the listening, listening, listening….
So whether you’ve been there 20 minutes or 20 years, I love you! Pass this on to the women that have been placed in your life to make a difference.