I love best friends, and I love when you realize just how big of blessing they really are. I love when you can’t help but smile, because you just know that out of everyone in the whole world, you really are the luckiest!! I love when we plead with God and then He answers us by showing us something we always had. That’s how I met Annie, my best friend forever, and that is who she continues to be to me; the answer to my pleading prayers. In ninth grade I spent many days crying and praying for a best friend, someone who would understand me, and laugh with me, and just go crazy with me, and the whole time I was praying, she was sitting right next to me in Chorus, I just didn't know! Years later, as I struggle, and pray, and cry, God once again, shows me, Annie, the girl always is, and always will be there for me. Last night at my college’s chapel service, our chaplain mentioned how God will give us the community we need to get the things He has us do, done. How sometimes we think we need something, or someone, but how we need to trust that God knows exactly what we need, and He will give it to us. Well, when I heard that, I didn't want to accept it. I just didn’t see how God was going to work it all out. But He did, and He continues to. He’s given me an amazing community here at Calvin, and back home. He’s given me an awesome family. And He’s given me Him. He is always there for me, even when I don’t see it. But just because He is so awesome, like David was given Jonathon, God gave me Annie, and tonight I once again realized how truly blessed that makes me. He used a girl 800 miles away, to once again answer a prayer I've been pleading with Him to answer. I’m so glad that He answers our prayers and continues to give us blessing we don’t deserve!!