I Asked for a Blessing.

It was my day off from the job that pays the bills and I woke with a bad headache and groggy. I thought nothing of it as I took some ibuprofen and went back to bed to wait for it to kick in but it was the start to a not so good day.

I had a lot that needed to be taken care of. I had to make phone calls for my second job and I had to make some personal calls regarding my computer and medication. I was only able to make a few calls for my second job as the phone call with tech support and my medication took much more of my time than I had intended.

When all was said and done I would have to be without my laptop for a week and I would have to go a few more days without my medication. I then got a call saying that a warrant would be placed for my arrest due to an unpaid payday loan from 2009. I was pissed as the woman on the phone was nasty and unwilling to work with me to resolve the issue outside of court.

I went to the free clinic to see about having my prescription moved to them because I would not be able to see a psychologist until September.  I was told that on my day off I would have to come in for a walk in appointment and see what could be done then. Feeling defeated by the day I went home.

I made a Facebook status update about how the day was rough and that I was hoping G-d would send me something amazing. It was a few minutes before I decided to log into my computer but when I did there it was, a message from Wanita. I had been planning to send her a letter hopping that she lived in the same place. We had lost touch around the time I moved back to Philly and I really missed her.

Wanita, I used to call her work mom, and I used to work together. I met her when I was 19 at my first full time job and I soon began working side by side with her. We were as thick as thieves, she had a son older than me and we became so close that she became my mother when my birth mother was not around. She taught me so much about how to carry myself at work and cover my ass and then went on to teach me about how I should carry myself when I go out with friends and how a good friend should treat you.  The lessons went on and on and she was right there for me when I turned 21 and when I came out of the closet.

She protected me as if I was her own and around her I could not have felt any safer. I admired here to the point that when I needed advice it was either her, my aunt or my own mother that I asked for advice and there was no other word on the matter.

In the modern world of constant cell phone upgrades I lost her number and she lost mine. But the day came when I really needed a blessing from G-d and so I told him and he sent me her number. I wasted no time in calling her and the joy we shared in hearing one another’s voices brought tears of joy to my eyes. I wasted no time in planning a time for us to hang out and gave her my first available slot. We have so much to catch up on and we both are looking forward to Friday.

Words cannot express the joy I have that G-d has brought back to me one of the greatest people he has ever placed in my life and I will not let her get lost in the mess of life again.