Thursday, November 02, 2006

Shout out

I have never used my blog for this, but I want the world to know how blessed I feel. I want to give a shout out to a very dear friend of mine, Darcy.

For those of you who know Darcy, this will come as no surprise to you. For those of you who don't know Darcy, I pray that you have someone in your life like her.

Darcy has a HUGE heart! Sometimes I wonder how her petite body can hold such a huge heart. I had a terrible day yesterday, and was at my wits end. I had dealt with a woman who lacks in the heart region and decided to unload on me. This is a woman whom I was doing some business with as well, and she was completely out-of-line with her behavior. I left the place in tears and anger and pure frustration. I didn't know what to do, so I called Darcy.

Darcy was so calm, reassuring, and understanding. I was mad because I didn't handle myself in a "Christ-following" way. Darcy offered words of comfort - I am sure the words were straight from Jesus. I was saddened by the crudeness of the woman I had just dealt with. Darcy assured me that it was not my fault, I had done no wrong.

As I was trying to go to sleep last night, I was replaying the whole afternoon in my head. I couldn't stop thinking about it. I decided to pray. My prayer wasn't that God would punish the crude woman I dealt with. It wasn't that he would make the hurting stop. It wasn't even prayer for a solution to my new dilema. My prayer was a prayer of humble thanks. Thanks for providing me with Darcy.

I pray that each of you has a "Darcy" in your lives. If you do, make sure they know how important they are.

Darcy, YOU ARE A HUGE BLESSING! This is my "shout out" to you! I love ya lots!

5 comments:

Jess said...

Hey there chica! First, I am so sorry that you were so upset! Second...how awesome to have someone like Darcy to turn to! You are blessed with so many awesome friends...and that is because you are an awesome friend to them! Third and most important...way to turn to God and pray!!! I am so proud of you and love you lots!!!

jenn said...

hey there roomie! huge applause to darcy and her huge heart! what an amazing friend! i am glad you took the time to give her a shout out...not because she would ever think about taking recognition, but because it reminds us all to give shout outs and thanks to friends like darcy who are are always there. and a huge shout out to Christ who placed those people in our lives and in our hearts. and on that note i give a huge shout out to you dina for being an amazing friend and one of the best roomies ever! love ya lots..m.e.

Dina said...

You both are so darn precious!!! Jenn, you are too sweet! Have fabulous days! Love you both, Dina

darcy said...

Holy cow.. talk about good friends you have in Jenn and Jess!! WOWZA!

Thanks for the shout out, D. But you know.. I've learned some pretty good friend lessons FROM my good friends. =) (Um, er YOU if you didn't catch on!) You'd go above and beyond to help me out so the tiny thing I could do was to try to cheer you up after a dress natzi attack!

Lub you!! SMOOCHES!!!

Lee and Becca said...

DINA YOU NEED TO POST SOMETHING?!?! We have a blog and want to be friends! :)