Friends are Blessing in Disguise.

Friends are Blessings in Disguise: Thank God for four faithful, trustworthy, and loyal friends in my life. (Amanda, Arun (baba), Betty (papa), and Stuart). All have taught me life lessons but A Big Thank You to Jesus for bringing baba into my life because God used him as a blessing in disguise to teach the following lessons of life.

1)Thank you for helping me overcome the fear of rejection.

2)Thank you for teaching me to express my self boldly without fear.

3)Thank you for listening to all those long posts and made me feel that I am heard.

4)Thank you for being that courage and strength when I took my first step into the career I wanted.

5)Thank you for showing me that no one has to motivate me to do what I love to do.

6)Thank you for empathizing with my childhood hurts which I shared only with you in this world. As someone said when you share with trusted friends you heal right. Thank God for using baba to heal my hurts.

7) Thank you for listening and correcting me like my dad and I am not wrong in valuing you next to my dad.

8) Thank you for bearing all my tantrums and childlike actions and stupid questions.

9) Thank you for helping me believe in myself at times when I felt insecure.

10) Thank you for holding the accountability of my prayer life and bringing me on track of my spiritual journey. Some years back my call was to be a prayer warrior but I lost that habit of praying and interceding for others when God became silent for my prayer for Arun.

11) some years back I developed anger towards God because of disappointment with baba and hardened my heart and I didn’t know He would use him only as a blessing to make my heart tender. Only the person whom we value only can break our hearts.

12) Thank you for being patient even when I got on your nerves.

13) Thank you for teaching me how to cry and grieve because after dad’s death I kind of lost that emotion in me but you brought it back.

14) Thank you because of you I have learned how to dig deep and understand a person.

15) Thank you for showing me areas of self-improvement.

16) In the year 2010 When you first rejected me I fell into trap of pornography but it was my friend's betty, Stuart, carol, Amanda, who helped me come out of it. presence of Faithful friends who always there to pray. I questioned myself if I truly love God and Arun I wouldn’t watch such filthy things. It was my love for God and for baba that kept me away from such temptations for many years. it was a battle which I won because of trustworthy friends who brought me back to the lord and of course Prayer…..prayer has unseen power with which we can fight many battles.

17) Thank you for making me understand the heart of God. I understood how much it hurts when you want to give so much love to a person whom you value and adore and when another person doesn’t acknowledge it hurts. God sacrificed himself for mankind still many take His love and grace for granted. Understood His pain.

17) Thank you for teaching me resilience.

18) Thank you for teaching me to be emotionally stable.

19) Thank you for fulfilling the small dreams of mine.

20) Thank you, Jesus, for fulfilling my dream to serve in children’s ministry along with baba in the year 2019.

21) Thank you for teaching me to forgive my self through your life experiences.

23) Thank you for bringing back that confidence in me to face circumstances of life. In the last 2 years somewhere I let happenings in my life decide my happiness …forgot that true joy and peace are within me. Christ in me the hope of Glory.

Sometimes when I didn’t understand why’s of life, even my friends couldn’t give those answers but trust me God was doing exceedingly abundantly above and beyond what even I could never imagine.

There would be a huge price to pay. Nothing worthwhile comes without great cost, but the adventure will be well worth it. God will provide trusted friends to get through and make life adventurous. Above all friends, the Greatest friend, abba father is God Jesus. He is worthy. He is faithful. He is good. He is kind. He is loving. He is my Why. He Got me and craved me on the palm of His Hand.

John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

Finally, Jesus Thank You which the meaning of my name Jesu Vandana.