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My friend Jessica is visually impaired and suffers from depression, to the point where she’s thought about cutting herself and is not allowed to be alone. She’s in a bad situation with her roommates at the moment (which caused her to want to cut herself) and has therefore been staying at our mutual friend, Michelle’s house for a week tonight. She has been spending her time with the two of us more often than not and both of us are kind of tired of it. She’s a wonderful person but I can’t focus on my homework because of how tired I am and in all honesty feels more like babysitting than hanging out with a good friend… not to mention she buys us stuff all the time and it feels like she’s buying our friendship or like she’s trying to… neither of us have the heart to tell Jess that we need some time alone because I don’t think that Michelle has had a period of time in the last week that has not been with her, at work, or in class.
I’m not as put upon but at times it’s like every ten minutes she has to do something else… there is no time for quiet or for just being it is always doing something… She is moving out of her dorm and off campus and has therefore been dragging us from one Goodwill to another and from Target to Wal Mart and back again and constantly offering to buy me food despite the fact that she needs to keep hold of as much money as she can because of the move.
She’s not moving far off campus, but enough that she doesn’t have a lot of the supports that she has on campus. She cannot cook, clean, or even take her guide dog out by herself if she’s in an area she isn’t used to… granted that her vision impairs much of this but what I ask for you to pray for is that she is able to learn this successfully, and that she ends up being quite successful at living on her own. I want her to grow as a person and I don’t want her to give up in this enterprise, as tired as I may be helping her I want her to succeed in this to become less dependent on other people. I also pray for her to be relieved of her depression which is trying in and of itself upon both Michelle and myself. I also want to ask prayers for her as she goes through the process of RCIA this upcoming school year and as she applies for graduate school. Thank you for your prayers and praise the Lord that I have a friend in her!
I’m not as put upon but at times it’s like every ten minutes she has to do something else… there is no time for quiet or for just being it is always doing something… She is moving out of her dorm and off campus and has therefore been dragging us from one Goodwill to another and from Target to Wal Mart and back again and constantly offering to buy me food despite the fact that she needs to keep hold of as much money as she can because of the move.
She’s not moving far off campus, but enough that she doesn’t have a lot of the supports that she has on campus. She cannot cook, clean, or even take her guide dog out by herself if she’s in an area she isn’t used to… granted that her vision impairs much of this but what I ask for you to pray for is that she is able to learn this successfully, and that she ends up being quite successful at living on her own. I want her to grow as a person and I don’t want her to give up in this enterprise, as tired as I may be helping her I want her to succeed in this to become less dependent on other people. I also pray for her to be relieved of her depression which is trying in and of itself upon both Michelle and myself. I also want to ask prayers for her as she goes through the process of RCIA this upcoming school year and as she applies for graduate school. Thank you for your prayers and praise the Lord that I have a friend in her!
