God the Comforter

         I like house sitting/dog sitting because it seems like I'm willing to take the time and do more things like staying up without a nap until bedtime and getting a lot more done. This is the 3rd time in a row that I have wrote in my blog and it has been awhile since I've done that, a long while. This entry is going to be about a chat I had with a older and wiser friend over coffee today and it was really neat to listen and learn things about me. It was also really neat to see her confirm things about me that I already knew but had a hard time with. She made me see that I was really doubting myself and we all have our ways of seeing and thinking about things differently.
         I met this women at a bible study and we made a time to go get coffee together. It was the 2nd time but at least we got to do it. She asked me to get together with her because I was crying during one of the Bible study. During that Bible study, things just came over me and I was too stressed to even think about what they were talking about during it. That was maybe 3 or 4 weeks ago. We started talking about that night when we met for coffee today and things made much more sense to me. It is strange how God can change our lookout on things in only 3 weeks. The Bible study was about making your own mission statement about your life and what your mission was from God.
         She started the conversation by ask the question, "What do you like to do?" and of course, I answered, "be with children and help them." She made it seem so easy after I told her that. She said, "Well, what about this?"

"To know I am a special child of God, and to make other children feel like a special child of God." 

          I was sitting there thinking, "Perfect! That explains what I'm doing now and what I want to do in the future. That makes total sense for and to me." So now, I have my mission statement for life and I don't think it will ever change in life. You know the funny thing is that, that mission can be used when and if I have a family of my own too, which I want.
         The other question that she asked me was, "If you could have one word about what God means to you on a shirt, then what would that word be?" My answer was "Comforter" because I got worried and anxious a lot. Then she asked me how that made me feel and I answered, "Peaceful, relaxed, and quiet." She, then, said, "Give me a picture that I could put in my mind to see and feel those things with you." I told her, "I would be in the mountains by myself with the cool wind blowing and the beautiful sun shining." I also told her that I thought it was a pretty place. She then asked me,  "Do you have a memory like that?" Of course I said, "Yes, all of my Montana memories when I was a little child." Then we got starting talking about Montana and all the memories I had there.
          It is funny but at the same time neat because just from all that that I told her she could tell me some of the colors that I liked and what I liked to do to calm me down. She said, "My favorite colors are white like the clouds, blue like the sky, and green like the grass." While she is right on two of them, I changed white like the clouds to yellow like the sun. I also really like to wear anything that has blue and green on it. She could also tell that I loved nature, which I do, because those colors were the colors of nature.
          It was just interesting and very insightful the way she went getting to know me. All those questions you never thought a person would ask yet they did and they could tell so much from just those few questions. They might be even to tell what really matters the most to you without saying it like, "What is your favorite colors or what has God done for you?" To me, it was very creative and artistic of her. Yet when you tell a person that you can only learn through pictures instead of words this way makes a lot more sense. That's why I might need to try it and plus it makes the conversations more deeper and inspiring but not in a awkward way.
          It made me see that I am a quiet, peaceful, deep thinking, nature loving person that loves children. That's there is nothing wrong with that at all. God made me that way and I'm glad He did! If people can't take me like I am (if I am too much for them), then it is their lost, not mine.