A Letter from My Friend, Eva

Just before I started writing here the mailman dropped something into my mailbox. I went to check and there was a FAT letter from my dear friend ...(I'll call her Eva).

We used to share an apartment together way back about 3 decades ago. She was sent of the LORD! I learned to greatly appreciate her. She came from an extra large family, so learned to cook and bake very well, because they were about 10 children in that clan. I learned a lot from her and we had many good evening chats.

I had a job at Philips as a receptionist and switchboard operator, while she was taking a 2 year community college course to work with delinquent youths. That career took her to various communities and cities all around Ontario. We kept in touch, but our visits were usually short and quick.

When I would be near a community where she was working at the time, I would drop in on her and be amazed how Eva could run a large older house full of rag-a-muffin kids. She let them burn off some of their energy, but could call them to attention in a cheerful voice when she needed them to calm down.

She could not always find qualified alternate staff so often she was running these "group homes" all by herself. Yes, on a 24-7 kind of schedule! (I got tired just thinking about that!)

When I moved back to Saskatchewan in 1983 to care for my parents - I missed my many friends from London and wherever else Eva was working at that time.

Actually, once she took a break and ran a Christian bookstore in a small town for a year or two. At that time, I was renting a tall, older house in a lovely, tree-shaded street near the Thames river, and I rented out rooms to my youngest sister, and a few university student-gals.

When these gals met my friend Eva, they gave her a nick-name. They called her "Wonder Woman!"

In the decades I've been back in Saskatchewan I have not had so much direct connect with Eva. We do exchange letters sometimes and we've even had a few long phone calls to catch up on each other.

Surprise! Eva got married a few years ago, and so our contacts are fewer and further between but they do still happen.

I have an 8 item prayer list that I pray for Eva and her people every day. We had not in fact talked or written each other in a few months.

Then today at noon, I got a 6 page letter from her and now have an update on her life, and what to pray for her all the more now.

Right now my heart is brimming over with love for my dear friend Eva! What a beautiful Rose in my friendship garden of good Friends!

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