My Titus 2 Friend
by adustyframe ~ July 23rd, 2008Moved away! I alluded to that a few weeks ago. She’s long gone now, enjoying her new home.
It’s been quite an adjustment for me. I had to struggle with selfishness. I didn’t want her to go at all!
She and her husband have been a huge encouragement to Lee and I. They visited him in prison and wrote him letters. They also prayed for us, checked on us, helped us.
They always seemed to show up at the exact time I was in real need of help.
One afternoon last fall, she came to the store and brought us a warm crock pot of soup so that I didn’t have to make dinner.
She would bring me things or give me money right after I prayed to ask God to provide it.
She’s been a wonderful example to me of a godly woman and a woman who loves her husband. She and I had wonderful discussions.
She watched James a few times for me and spoiled him rotten.
We have been so blessed to have them as a part of our lives.
She and I still email. She called me yesterday and we had a lovely chat. It’ s just not quite the same.
I felt like out of all the people in my circle, she’s the one who cared the most to know what was going on and what I needed help with or what we needed her to pray for. Losing them to another state is not easy. I did ask God why she had to move.
“I need her!” was pretty much what I said when I prayed. But the truth is, she still prays for us and cares about us. She still read my blog. She’s still a part of our lives from a distance.
When I was struggling with the selfishness and sadness over her move, I had to remember that I have to depend on God more than I depend on people. He graciously allowed her to be a part of our lives for a season. Now she gets to minister to others in a new area, and I get to focus my dependence entirely on God.
As Martha says, “It’s a good thing”.
Titus 2:3-5
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:00 pm
It may be a good thing, but good things are not always easy things. How hard it is to let people go, to start new chapters in our lives — even if the new chapter turns out better than the old!
July 23rd, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Oh, that’s hard.
Knowing God has a reason is about the only thing that makes it bearable. Although it is good that she didn’t have to leave any earlier than she did. Maybe the Lord will bring along another special someone for this new phase of life.
I don’t have any one particular Titus 2 friend. There was one older lady who was sort of like that for me from my later college years onward, less so over the last few years just because of distance and less contact. But I’ve had several Titus 2 moments, so to speak, over the years when the Lord sent along someone who had just the right thing to share or an answer to the question I was wrestling with at the moment.