“You don’t have to be afraid.”

I am not going to be able to adequately convey the depth and beauty of this conversation…but I am gonna try…

Today after devos at SB one of the ladies came up  to me…this is the conversation we had.

Mo – Oh Mousumi-di, were you afraid last night?

Me – What?

Mo- were you afraid last night?

Me – Who told you that?

Mo – were you afraid last night.

Me – yes.

Mo – because you don’t have to be afraid. Jesus is with you.

Me- who told you I was afraid?

Mo – Jesus.

Me – what?!

Mo – Jesus told me. I was praying and I prayed for you that you wouldn’t be afraid. You don’t ever have to be afraid. Jesus is with you.

At this point I’m speechless…and my brain is reeling….and I can’t quite believe what I just heard.

…cause here’s the thing…yesterday I had an appointment that was supposed to be no big deal…drop off some paperwork…a short wait and that was supposed to be that…but that is not how it went…and before I knew it was in the middle of an official/paperwork-y misadventure.

…let’s just say that what was supposed to be an uneventful (somewhat inconvenient) errand ended with me having an emotional melt down standing on the sidewalk calling beth and crying as I explained what happened, how I was freaking out…and trying to hear her over the car horns whizzing by me. (To my memory, this is the first time I have broken down and cried on the sidewalk in k-town…so it was a pretty big deal)…

So this morning when my friend pulled me aside and hugged me and told me, “you don’t have to be afraid, Jesus is with you” well…it struck something deep within me…it brought a completely different sort of tears to my eyes.

I can’t believe she’s my friend.

(And, it’s probably worth adding that there was an earthquake in Indonesia yesterday and they were forecasting a Tsunami and possibly more earthquakes, so people were kind of worked up yesterday…and that’s why she thought I was afraid…but it kind of doesn’t matter…it was beautiful no matter what!)