Spider woman

I will change the names of the people I will be talking about. Today I want to share on this new friend. She is one of them people that you meet, but you seem to have known forever. In fact many people mentioned that they thought we were relatives or that they had thougth we had known eachother before.

We had never met, yet there were several factors that made our relationship strong.As a starter her aunt was once my mom's best friend. And I knew her dad, when we were young.
It was funny because even before knowing these details we just kind of had a link. It was later on that she said somthing about "my aunt is ..." and I thought "how funny!" Then as I told my mom at night she said, well then she is probably xxxx daughter.
So next morning I went in and asked her "Are you xxxx daughter?" She said "yes" and I said "No wonder!!!!"
She is just as crazy as her dad.
Crazy is an adjetive that is not 100% right. She is bold, audacious and extremely intelligent. At the same time she is fun.
We did not spend a lot of time together. We both studied each other, and we knew we were studying each other. She knew I was sooner or latter going to bring God up in the conversation, and she wanted to avoid touching the subject so we kept some distance. But I observed, and prayed, and waited for the moment...
And the moment did come.
And it was a special moment. Yes, she knows God, but can't find her place in church. Structure too stiff for her, but more than that she is also dissapointed. It has frustrated her that people speak the truth of the Bible but do not live up to it. "They worry about the superficial looks, and not about the hearts" she started and went on to say that she could see that her friends needed God but that the church would look down upon them because they wore piercings and the such...
I pushed the issue further, for we both knew this was superficial talk.Finally she said "you have no idea how hard it is to be rich. It is such a superficial world. And you have no idea how hard it is to be a true chrisitan in the midst of such a society!"
Was I supposed to crumble before her argument?
I did not. My answer was:
I pressed on....it is hard in any circle of society.
Following the one true God is hard anywhere, you will always end up being different. And the closer you draw near God the more different you will be, the lonier it will get, but it is the only thing I consider rightly labeled as life.

I could see the longing in her eyes. And I can see she is a leader.
It is one of those times that you wish you could do more..and yet you have to wait and hope that what you have done is enough.
I knew she was observing me constantly. Was she trying to see if I was for real?
I think so.
I sense this is the attitude of many nowdays. People longing for something real.

If we as a church gave less attention to activities to win people and would spend more time in allowing God to be God in our lives...I think we would soon see people turning to God.
In fact I noticed by the way she talked on her aunt (who translated the New Testament to Otomi) that her aunt is the one person she considers a real christian, and it is her testimony that gives her hope to some extent.

She seems defiant and bold and adacious, but at the same time she is extremly sweet and vulnerable.

When we said good-bye, she held me tightly and cried.

I truly feel that our relationship has just begun.