Upside-down

The upside-down turn from a gloomy and frustrating situation was His sweet surprise yesterday.

            God’s message indeed is not confined in the Bible, or during our prayer time.He speaks to us anywhere through anything or anyone.

           

            She agreed with me that God has meant that only the two of us have met that night.

            A get-together with some high school friends here in Manila was set yesterday and it was supposed to be a celebration for her pseudo-birthday.

            Several things(which I can’t really pinpoint) frustrated me and made me say “nakakainis” that latter part of the day. Adding up to that was the saddening outcome that only I and that girl (who was not really a high school friend) met during the night.

            Her name is Fatima, a friend since I was in first year college, a close friend of a close friend of mine and a dear blessing last night.

            We were in McDo to do away with the sad thought of an unrealized plan. We ate and she started to amazingly talk about timely things that I needed that time.

            She shared about her best friend: someone God handed over to her to guard, love and take care of.

            What was out of the ordinary is that this best friend of her is not someone who’ll qualify under the category of good girls.

            Fatima is a Christian, a very kind and friendly person and her best friend is actually her exact opposite.

            Her bff is from a broken family and she said that what could seemingly describe her is a “walking disaster”.

            I would not write the reasons for this, but I think it will give anyone the idea of how terrible her life could have been.

            This is not to condemn her or judge her; rather it is to grieve about, with and for children of broken families.

 

            I personally think that among those difficult people to understand and deal with, are the products of broken homes. Of course, this is not true for each one of them.

But my life has been surrounded with friends from broken families. God had been sending them to me or should I say: He’ sending me to them.

           

            I have been blessed to hear from Fatima these insights last night that haveawaken me:

-         “As a  Christian wala nang puwang para sa kanila ang inis, what they deserve is understanding and love”

-         “Di ko alam kung saan ako huhugot ng rasonpara magalit o mainis sa kanya kasi sobra sobra akong nag cacare sakanya”

-         “Narealize ko kung gaano tayo ka-blesssed kasi tayo yung nag-cocomfort, hindi tayo yung kino-comfort”

-         “Minsan nga nag-iisip ako kung kulang pa yung effort ko”

-          “Pinagsasabihan ko siya lagi kahit nanaiinis na sakin yung iba naming kaibigan…gusto ko siyang alagaan, bantayan”

-         “Lagi ko siyang pinagpapray”

-         “Alagaan mo si (the person I am having a great difficulty understanding these days) Abbie, wag mo siyang pababayaan”

 

Needless to say, God has poured out great love to Fatima to enable her to constantly love her bestfriend. My hat’s off to her about that love she has cultivated.

I am moved to love even the most difficult people to understand, much more, realizing that my students in the future will more likely be among those.