Judy

These past days I have desperately wanting inspiration to write a blog, and I’m feeling as though I have no inspiration. 

The other day I was biking home from a friend’s house, and after being confused because I had got lost, I passed a small, rough looking house with a bunch of little, angry, yappy dogs. A woman, dressed in shorts and a sports bra with insect bitten legs, pushing around a stroller hollered at me from the side of the house. She was saying how she hasn’t seen me in a while. This was very interesting for me because I have never met the woman. Something in me made me stop and see what she was all about. (Part of that something is probably a longing to meet people in the community).

So I start talking to this middle-aged woman, I find out her name, which is Judy. Let me tell you a little about what I learned from Judy, she is a little mentally challenged so to describe how our conversation went would be hard. So I’ll just tell you about her. She desires to be loved and to be acknowledged so badly. I had my purse/bag with me and she wanted to know if I had anything to give her. She likes knickknack odd thing. She gave me a few Christmas ornaments and I had given her a bead out of my hair and she really like that. I don’t believe she can read or write because when she gave me her telephone number she had her mom write it out.
       

A lot of what we talked about was the males in her life, how she has been hurt by them or how they have been nice to her. I really do believe she didn’t have a fatherly figure around much because she wants to be accepted and loved by men.

I had asked her if she went to church anywhere or if she knew God but that conversation didn’t go anywhere. Before I left (or at least tried to leave) I asked to pray with her, which she was accepting to. The whole time I prayed with her she was intently staring at me, which made me nervous…more nervous than I had been before. While I was walking away she told me that she loved me, this really meant a lot to me. I had just met her and listened to her talk, this is what she is longing for, someone to care about her.

There are many people out there who are lonely and hurting, and who is going out and being a light to them? Who is loving that person, who is afraid to leave their house?

I pray that God will give me more purpose driven times to talk to her especially to tell her how much God loves her. I hope to spend more time with her and see where God will lead us.

All this to say this is just one little thing that is going on right now in my life.