Dec 04 2008
True Friends come when you need them too!
I worried incestantly about having to move and then I had given up. Although I did decide to pack most of my stuff in boxes and I couldn’t move in my apt. I asked God why he had helped me meet all my goals except one. I wanted a new apt for December 1st. Just in time for christmas and I figured since by November 30th I hadn’t found one that I would be out of luck. Then I was down about it thinking God or the Universe just didn’t care. For I had asked for help from both and then I decided to ask my Mother for her help. She died about 2 years ago just before christmas and I was having one of my teary eyed moments alone. You see Mom was always the type to look for apts for me and I had many over the years. I guess while being single I went from several different rooms usually because I ended up with a crappy apt or crappy roommates that had major issues with either relationships, drugs or just plain didn’t want to pay any rent.
So many years of bad luck but Mom had always been there. Now that she’s gone I really didn’t know what to do. So I grabbed the paper and went and looked at a few places and then I prayed, “Mom if you can hear me, I really need help finding a bigger apt simply because I want a two bedroom so that I can have my own office and dedicate more time to working on a career as an author. I don’t know if you can hear me but could you and the universe do something for me and give me a nice christmas for once? It’s been pretty bleak and miserable since you’ve been gone.” That was it, that was my simple, silly prayer. I never thought it would be answered.
A few days later, Dec 2nd I sat in a Bistro cafe trying to eat some soup and fruit. I just couldn’t enjoy it, Christmas was making me miserable. Mom had been my Santa, buying me all sorts of gifts, having the christmas cheer and always made it so much fun. I hadn’t really appreciated it at the time. Now I do, i have those great memories in my mind. Then it happened that song about christmas, the one I played at her funeral because she loved it so much and I began to cry there alone in the bistro cafe.
A big lump had formed in my throat and tears were pouring down my face and I wiped my eyes, stared out the window and saw all the miserable people walking into the employment center. They were worried about their next meal, or where to live or they had lost a job and needed income support. They were having it rough also and I stopped crying. I remembered when it had been hard times for me when I got laid off from jobs and went on employment almost every winter.
It always put a crimp in my spending at that time of year. All those people walking by and worry and fretting could be seen in the lines of their face. And I thought well I don’t have any money to move and I probably will be stuck in my tiny little bachelor apt with my boyfriend and our miniature poodle daisy and our two bunnies munchie and bugsy.
I went home that day and my boyfriend was all excited and said, the apt is available still downstairs and he’s fixed it! You see I had looked at it about two months ago but it had this horrid smell in the bathroom and I was told it was sewer gas!
Well the landlord poured water into it, some air freshener and taped up the water hose. It has hook ups for a washer and dryer in the bathroom and problem was solved. He asked me if we wanted it, I said yes! Then I told him I can pay the extra $100 for last months out of my grocery money and then in a few weeks pay the rest of the $100 for the rental portion. He agreed to this arrangement even though two months before he wanted the whole amount up front.
You see he had come upstairs to fix my taps and my window and seen everything packed. We really couldn’t move anywhere in the apt because it was so crowded and he said missy you really need a bigger place and I said, well i’ve prayed for one but it didn’t come in time for christmas and there two days later he offered me a larger 2 bedroom apt!
It’s more money but so much more space, even with all the boxes in it there loads of room to walk around. I was worried about how to move the boxes and furniture when we had no money to pay for movers and thank god I didn’t need a truck because we moved downstairs to another apt. But then my new hairdresser told me something that I had never thought of. She said, true friends don’t charge to help you move and they don’t expect the pizza and beer. I figured she was wrong, and today I found out the answer.
We called up everyone we knew and asked for them to come help us today by ten a.m. It so happened that it was all their day off work! We had no idea and we were blessed with six friends that came to help us move today. We took one out for breakfast early this morning and another one out for lunch. The other two have agreed to have a coffee with us tonight our treat. And the other two refused to take anything. Today I learned the true meaning of freindship and the funniest thing is we have just met three of these people in the last week! The others were long time friends but in the past we had always bought pizza and beer but this time we just couldn’t do it.
Some gave us christmas gifts today and that was a surprise. We usually don’t exchange gifts with anyone, not even family because they don’t celebrate christmas ( my boyfriends family that is). My family is all gone except I have my two sons and well I always get them gifts for christmas, It may not be much but it’s the thought that counts!
The moral of this story is, God and the Universe answered my prayer, Mom gave me a helping hand and a merry christmas present and I found the gift of freindship where I have never experienced it this way before.
So thanks to Mom hearing my prayer, She gave me a merry christmas and showed me That we have true friends who came when we needed them too!
