Today as Samantha and I were visiting Princess in her home, I noticed the woman in the shack next door. I had never seen her before, but she stayed busy hanging laundry and cleaning as I was busy tending to Princess outside as she got some fresh air. I noticed a man had walked into the woman’s shack next door and they were now talking, but I didn’t think the woman really had paid that much attention to us. After about 10 minutes being outside I took Princess inside, and was helping her get situated as the woman from next door came into the house and handed me a note without making any sort of eye contact. I read the note and this is what it said:
“I need help. Can you pray for my boyfriend to change his mind
to go to the clinic for a check up. Because I am a victim of HIV positive also.
I’m so afraid to tell you face to face
And what people will say about me because they don’t know.”
After I finished reading the note she fell into my arms and wept. Words can not explain to you what I felt as I held this young woman not much older then me weeping in my arms. She remained in my arms as I prayed for her and then told her I would come by one day soon to talk and visit more. Then she walked away. It all happened within a matter of minutes. It felt like a whirlwind. I kept asking myself and God what just happened as I walked back home today. My heart is full as I heart this. I wish I could explain to the shame I saw on her face and the hurt that filled her eyes as for the first time she had let her secret out. Or they way if felt to have her crying in my arms. I honestly still don’t know what to say. I do know that it was no mistake that I was there today at the right time. I am going to go back and visit her and get to know her and her story. God is so faithful. I have been asking God to bring someone into my life that He wants me to disciple, and she just might be the one. I looked back to my journal entry from this morning and I had wrote, “Will you use me today? Amidst my confusion, emotions and inadequacy, will you still use me? If that means praying, loving or speaking out.”
Let God use you and be ready to be surprised!
Please pray for my new friend, that she will feel she can trust me and open up to me. Pray she will be open to Jesus, and His promise of eternal life.
Pressing On,
-ellie
