The Writer's Devotional

12/31/2014 Week 1
Wednesday/ Writing Class
Assignment: Write a biography about your best friend

I hate this prompt.  Are best friends universal?  Because I don't have a best friend. And when I'm asked to write about one it causes me to feel lonely.  But I'm really not lonely. I have a happy, fulfilled life. What is a best friend & how do you get them?  A few times in my life I have claimed a "best friend" only to find out they didn't claim me back.  Ouch.  So I don't say I have a best friend anymore.  I have good friends that have journeyed in life with me.  At different points.  & then I am walking alone again.   I could be described as a loner, I guess.  I don't run in packs.  Somehow my life has always been so normal, yet complicated.  I hide the complications & that makes me too guarded to have really close friends.  If I was forced to say I have a best friend right now- I'd say it was my daughter.   Avria, who changed her name to Victoria, knows me in ways that few people do.  Our relationship was stormy from day one- I did not want a girl.  I was raised by my father & girlie I was not.  I was afraid of girls.  I didn't know how to be one.  My daughter tore the cover off of me.  Exposing my weaknesses and inadequacies, and I hated her.  She demanded things of me that I swore weren't there.  But deep down inside they were there.  Our relationship became the sandpaper God used to uncover the varnished and polished, fake version of me.  Little by little, through fights & accusations, through confessions & repentances I faced the demons of my past.  I emerged as the mother she needed, as the person I really was.  Now we talk & shop & share life's joy's & disappointments in real time.  Sometimes daily, sometimes not.    She knows me & still she loves me.  I think that's what's meant by a "best" friend.