Your Go-To People

Do things just ever happen to you that give you that yick feeling? When they happen to me I can feel my heart drop and usually it is followed by tears or some inappropriate around my five and one year-old words muttered under my breath.
Unfortunately I had one of these moments the other day. I got word of news that wasn't what I expected and delivered not in the way I had envisioned. In these moments some people, after their initial reaction, close in and deal with it on their own. Others, like me, have their go-to people. I find strength, optimism, and a better perspective in others when I can't find it myself. With this particular situation I knew my go-to person would have to be none other than my old college roomate, and one of my best friends, whom my dad so lovingly named (and still calls her to this day), Keebler.
Keebler was just one of those people that I knew God had placed in my life pretty much as soon as I met her. She also happens to be one of those people that others want to surround themselves with because she has this way of seeing the best in people and loving them even with their faults.
Silly example ~ in college Keebler liked ketchup on her eggs. Everytime she would do this a guy that sat at our table in the dining hall would make fun of her and give her terrible, horrid examples of what her eggs looked like. Keebler had a way of not only laughing it off, but somehow showing this guy love to the point that he would come and give her a hug when he saw her. Now, I know she isn't perfect, and I remember what names she called him when we were exiting the dining hall and out of earshot, but Keebler always knew how to forgive and forget, not to stress about the little stuff, and laugh through it all.
Now, some things have changed since college. I wouldn't be caught dead in my "50% Angel/50% Devil" shirt (as we were sporting in the picture above), and I don't get to eat breakfast with Keebler everyday, but her values and viewpoints do pop up inside me in difficult moments, and thankfully if I need a reminder to put things into perspective she is only a phone call away.