I need friends! (Hear ye, hear ye!) LOL. How absurd, yes? As though I were advertising. But the fact is there's only so much that journaling and reading and emailing and chatting with my family can do to quell loneliness. The fact that I don't make friends easily doesn't help. I'm working and meeting people, eventually I'll be back in school and meeting people, and soon I hope I'll be attending church and meeting people. But even in those instances, most of the people I meet aren't friend material.

That sounds awful, doesn't it? It's just not many people I meet are the sort of people I'm comfortable really being myself with. I have several acquaintances, but they're not the ones I seek out when I need a good coze...or a good cry.

Blah. The watchword these days appears to be Endure: "And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us." (Romans 5:3-5 NKJV)

Not exactly the tribulation Paul was talking about, but it helps anyway. :)

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