She knocked on my door and changed my life.
There was a knock at my front door.
I opened it to find a round woman of dark skin and even darker eyes.
Her smile was wide as my mood was deep that day.
She introduced herself, “I’m Annie. I walk by your garden all the time. I saw your front door open today so I thought I’d stop and ask if I could take a look.”
The more we talked the more it felt natural to be around her.
Like I had known her forever.
That was three years ago and we are fast friends. She calls me one of her daughters, though we are much closer in age and could be sisters.
I’ve learned through her life what it means to trust in God for everything. She doesn’t worry about things — she says Jesus will take care of her.
When we pray together — she will often correct me afterwards. Once she said I shouldn’t just pray for my children, I need to pray for everybody’s children.
I kind of got mad just a smidge, but later thought she’s right.
She’s stretched my world through being her large, enormous spirited self.
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Linking up with Jana for Stream of Consciousness Sunday. Our prompt: Who has dropped into your life and made it better?
This was hard for me. I knew there was no way I could explain the intricacies of Annie and my relationship in five minutes. Five unedited minutes.
But I had to give it a go. No other human has just knocked on my door and affected my life so.
I need to get our picture. Bummed I don’t have one.
Who is someone who’s come into your life and changed things?
Here are the rules:his was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…
- Set a timer and write for 5 minutes.
- Write an intro to the post if you want but don’t edit the post. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
- Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
- Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post (in the sidebar). .
- Link up your post below.
- Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.
