Today I met a girl. Okay, really I met her about a year ago. She is a co worker of mine at the bookstore I work at, and tonight her and I hung outside of work for the first time ever. She is also the first co worker I have ever hung out with outside of work because I tend to have this rule about co workers being co workers, not friends.
Her and I both worked today and just decided to meet up at the mall after work. So we walked around and talked. We shared laughs and jokes and honestly it was the first time I felt really, purely happy around someone in a few weeks. But more than just all that goofiness (which there was A LOT of) we also got to share our hearts, our frustrations, and I realized that I forgot how good it feels to just be open and real with someone just to get it off my heart. We realized that we shared a lot of the same worries and cares and we have experienced similar things.
It made me realize a little glimpse of God's goodness, which if you read my post yesterday, you know that is something I have been struggling with.
Last year the Lord gave me the verse Jeremiah 29:11 for 129 straight days (and when I say gave, I mean He shoved it down my throat, ask anyone who was in my life at the time, it was painful). And this year He has started that pattern again with the same verse, Jeremiah 29:11. Today was day eleven.
Something that I realized tonight is that God had taken someone out my life because this is just not a season for us to be in each other's lives the same way we have been in the past, but he also gave me this girl who I look up to and admire, not only as a co worker, but as a friend, right when I needed her.
He is teaching me that His timing is perfect, though I may not always see that or agree.
So she is a girl I have known for a while, but tonight I met her, and she will never understand the blessing she was/is to me.
And I am starting to relearn that maybe God is looking out for me, maybe he does care, and maybe, just maybe, He really is good.
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