Imaginary Boyfriend needs to step his game up.
Yesterday started out pretty horrible, if you want to know the truth. The reasons are so ridiculous that I’m not even going to give them bloggy time except to say that, by 9:23 a.m., I was sitting on the windowsill in the office bathroom crying my eyes out.
Fabulous, right?
As the day progressed, the problems mounted. I didn’t get done with work until pretty late and, since I hadn’t exactly eaten lunch, I was starving.
Enter the people I will henceforth be referring to as Most Awesomest Couple Ever.
You probably remember me telling you about Allison, also known as the only other Starlite staff member. Allison and I met our first day of college (six years ago!) and have been good friends ever since. She’s dating Ryan and things are Very, Very Serious.
So, as I’m driving home last night, Most Awesomest Couple Ever calls my cellular device (you may know yours as “cell phone”) and announces that they will be arriving on our doorstep momentarily to fix dinner for us. I, of course, agreed to this plan because? Someone wants to cook dinner for me? I AM DOWN WITH THAT.
What Roomie and I didn’t expect is to learn that not only had Most Awesomest Couple Ever bought food to cook for us but, knowing that Roomie and I haven’t actually had time to really go grocery shopping yet, they bought bags full of groceries for us.
Roomie and I just stood there, stunned, as the bags kept coming. Ryan and Allison had thought everything out — they had certain things that just I eat, certain things that Roomie likes and then even more stuff for us to share. They wouldn’t accept money for the groceries and actually put everything away for us.
This would be about the time that I wanted to again curl up into a ball and begin crying. Instead, I pulled a cookie out of one of the bags and happily had what I like to think of as an appetizer.
While Allison cooked us dinner, Ryan started putting together our new entertainment center for us. This was no small task as it came with 40 full pages of instructions. After dinner, Ryan kept working on it while Allison helped me hang some pictures in the house. When we had everything hung that’s going upstairs, we all got into Roomie’s bed (well, not Ryan) and had a little prayer time for Baby and Roomie right there in her bed. Ain’t no shame in having church up in your roommate’s bed — can I get an amen?
AMEN!
I stayed up with Ryan and Allison for a bit longer but then had to get to bed as I had to be up at a very early hour this morning for The Other Job I Never Write About. Ryan and Allison insisted that they stay and finish the entertainment center and said that they’d lock up after themselves.
I know I’m a horrible person for agreeing to that but you better believe I did, ya’ll. I was tired.
Flash forward to this morning when Roomie came to my room and said “Have you seen downstairs?” Thinking that something was wrong, I headed down there to look around and found that The Most Awesomest Couple Ever had not stayed just to put together our entertainment center.
They organized, cleaned, etc. our entire first floor of the house. Everything.
I really don’t even know how to begin telling you how I feel about this because, if I do, I’m afraid I’ll start crying again and I THINK WE’VE HAD ENOUGH OF THAT. It’s just that Roomie and I have been so busy this week — she started a full-time job on Monday and I have already worked about 60 hours this week at my two jobs. To have someone go grocery shopping for us, fix a homemade dinner for us, put together our furniture and clean our house while we slept is just unbelievable to me.
Great. Now I’m crying again.
Posted: July 24th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 21
Comments
Comment from Jennifer Miles
Time: July 24, 2008, 9:38 am
Oh Amy Beth!!! What amazing friends!!! LUCKY! 
Comment from Beth
Time: July 24, 2008, 10:07 am
wow! that is tooo awesome!!!! GOd is good!so are good friends!!!
Comment from debbie d.
Time: July 24, 2008, 10:18 am
honestly, you all had church…I love when the church (aka: God’s good people) get up off their knees and get busy…much love to MOST AWESOME COUPLE from St. Louis! I think I need to send a PNC donation in their honor, don’t you think?
Comment from Sarah
Time: July 24, 2008, 10:21 am
Now you got me crying too!
Many blessings to you, roomie, and awesomest couple ever!!
Comment from Gayle
Time: July 24, 2008, 10:23 am
Brothers and Sisters in Christ who aren’t afraid to LOVE. Priceless.
Comment from Brandy T.
Time: July 24, 2008, 11:08 am
That’s why SL still remains my favorite ministry ever. You girls take care of each other like nobody I’ve ever known! You’re all awesome!
Comment from Kim
Time: July 24, 2008, 11:25 am
Give those two a hug and a smooch from me to thank them for being so dang nice!
Comment from Jenn @ Casa de Castro
Time: July 24, 2008, 11:32 am
What friends the Lord has given you! Praying for a special blessing for them today AND for you and Roomie. Great, inspiring post!
Comment from Bethany
Time: July 24, 2008, 12:11 pm
You reap what you sow AB… and you sow so much love you deserve to reap whole armloads of it.
Your friends, and what they are willing to do for you, say alot about you. And its all good. =)
Comment from trs
Time: July 24, 2008, 1:15 pm
Wow. How generous – of their time and money and LOAVE!
Thanks for the reminder to be Christ’s hands and feet!
I need to do more of that – but honestly, I can’t imagine my friends letting me in their house like that. Sometimes we all worry about being proper. Being too proper can cut off Christ’s willing hands and feet!
Good for you for letting them love you that way!
Comment from trs
Time: July 24, 2008, 1:15 pm
Oh… that was supposed be LOVE in the first line. What a silly typo!
Comment from Ronnica
Time: July 24, 2008, 1:48 pm
That’s awesome! This reminds me of all the ways my church family blessed me when we went through a fire!
Comment from Jennifer
Time: July 24, 2008, 2:38 pm
Girlfriend, you are blessed to have some amazing friends. Hmmm, must be because you ARE one. (I’m pretty sure Roomie will give me an Amen.) Very cool.
Comment from Kelley
Time: July 24, 2008, 4:01 pm
Now THOSE are some good friends, girl. And I am so reminded in this example of what the BODY of Christ is supposed to look like. I pray special blessings on those two for being that kind of friend.
Comment from Christine
Time: July 24, 2008, 5:07 pm
Well, I’m crying now too!! How awesome to have such special people in your life, people who obviously have a very good idea of what it means to be living their faith walk and not just talking about it! Blessings on all of you!
Comment from Theresa
Time: July 24, 2008, 5:45 pm
Dagnabit, thanks for making me bawl!! God has rewarded you with awesome friends! Every day I read this and it makes my day.
THanks!
Comment from Vicky
Time: July 25, 2008, 12:47 am
They totally deserve the award for Most Awesome Couple Ever. Hands down.
I love stories like this.
Comment from Kelly @ Love Well
Time: July 25, 2008, 1:00 am
Remember how you cried for me earlier today?
Back atcha babe.
Comment from marigold
Time: July 25, 2008, 3:10 pm
Bless their hearts! Truly good friends. We could all use some folks like that. It makes me wonder if I’m the type of person who would step up like that? Obviously, if I’m still WONDERING, and not, you know, DOING, then I am not there yet.
Comment from Melody
Time: July 25, 2008, 3:43 pm
Wow. You really have some amazing friends there. They are just wow. God Bless You!
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Comment from Mandy
Time: July 24, 2008, 9:35 am
Having a friend bless you is so amazing. I used to be that person a lot. But not that I have kids & hubs…it’s harder to do.
This is inspiring me. I’m gonna do something today. Something to remind someone that God is looking out for them.
I’ll post about it later…be looking on my blog (Wait, I don’t even know if you READ my blog) =/