My friend...

I know that it is the holidays and I am envious of all of you who have kept up your blogspots and have pictures even now of the decorations and all, already posted. Maybe tomorrow...or the next day...

But, right now, I need to tell a story.

Once upon a time, a little nobody from no place special got the opportunity to meet someone very special - in fact, the very special someone that the little nobody got to meet was royalty - maybe not a queen exactly, but royalty none the less.

The little nobody was so excited that she was meeting the somebody! And even more so, when for some unknown Reason, the little nobody and the special someone became really special friends. They visited each others houses, they met each others' families, they even dedicated a monument together.

The special someone wasn't like a lot of special someones that get all selfish and self-centered. THIS special someone made every one around her feel special, too. She would share all she knew about special places and things in the world, she would even talk to lots and lots of people in their very own language because she could! We all know that special someones are gifted that way - to make others feel special, too.

One day, a very long time after the little nobody and the special someone had become friends, the special someone became very sick - very sick. Because special someones are special, they don't always like to share when they aren't feeling very special, so not a lot of people knew that the special someone was very, very sick. But the little nobody did. And she prayed and prayed that the special someone would get well and not be sick anymore, and that the special someone would ask the One Who made her special, to help her.

The special someone lived being sick with not so many knowing for a long time, but one day, she couldn't keep from showing that she was very, very sick anymore. She realized that she wasn't so special if she could keep herself from being sick.

And the time had come to meet the ONE WHO had made her special all her life. The little nobody was very, very sad when day came that the special someone left to go meet the ONE WHO LOVED HER BEST, the One Who had made the VERY SPECIAL PERSON what He wanted her to be to everyone she had met - and especially to the little nobody, who she had left behind.

The little nobody missed the special someone and trusted that someday, when the ONE WHO LOVES HER BEST comes to take her with Him, that the special someone who was her friend will be there with Him, too.

Goodbye, special someone; this little nobody has certainly been forever changed by your very special friendship. The end....for now.