These two ears...

Ever wonder if you're being punked? Seriously- I wait for Ashton and a camera crew to pop up out of the bushes or from behind the door.

Yesterday my phone rings (I know you read the blog now, so feel special that this post is about you) and its an ex. I was tempted to not answer it. I actually expected the camera crew to come through then to catch the reaction on my face when the number showed up...I figured it would be the same conversation that had been texted to me over the past couple months and since I'd forgiven in my heart. I didn't think anything else needed to be said...but "what if it's important" came up so I answered. The conversation wasn't at all what I expected it to be. He needed an ear (or two) and a few words. We actually had a good conversation.

I know that I'm a listener. I can take a survey of those I'm close to and I'm sure they will say the same. But in the midst of the conversation with him, I realized just why it is that I've never really seriously dated someone that I wasn't friends with before. Without a friendship foundation....these conversations wouldn't be possible. Being someone's friend is being there to listen to them and support and help them along the way. Barring certain reasons for ending a relationship (i.e. violence, cheating) it is possible to still be friends with someone after. You never really know why God puts you in someone's path. Seriously. You may have thought it was for one reason but as time goes on, you realize that it was about something else entirely.