Missing my sister...

I always wanted a sister.  Not a biological sister, but a friend I felt so close to that I would never be able to tell the difference.  Well God was awesome in his working, he gave me a sister, who I will refer to as my TSINW (The Sister I Never Wanted).  This is actually what we refer to each other as for a few reasons. 1. She is my sister by selection of God, so even I didn't want her as a sister, there is nothing I can do about it. 2. We torture each other, something sisters never do, right?!?! 3. Because we share families, her parents are mine and vise versa, and they always side with the wrong sister.  All these things combined create TSINW.

I met my TSINW at work about five or so years ago, an  I really thought she was odd.  Well that has proven true, but she is an amazing person.  One of the things we soon discovered about each other is that we were not someone the other person could ever live with.  We vowed never to be room mates with each other. 

As time passed, we became better and better friends.  Well my TSINW went overseas to teach missionary children.  She came back to the states for the summer of 2009 and needed a short term place to stay, so me being the very kind person I am (ha ha ha) offered her to bunk with me for the summer at my dads house.  She accepted.  It was awesome, it was like a summer long slumber party. She was suprisingly easy to live with if you excuse the seaweed and dried squid she tried to feed us. 

Well, before the end of the summer we decided that we would become roommates when she permanently retuned to the US the following spring, and we did just that.

After a million emails and skype calls, we found a place and began the transition.  When we moved in we stayed up all night for weeks sharing the Gospel, talking about life, and just being sisters. 

Our lives were those of blood sisters, even though she is my sister from a different mister.  (LOL)

We attend each others churchs for various events (its really awesome to have more than one church family).
We even celebrated Thanksgiving dinner with both her family and mine at our house and it was amazing.  Our slumber party just continued to get more and more awesome.

Well recently, this has changed with my TSINW, and believe me I am super happy for her.  She is happier than she has even been, for an awesome reason.  Romans 12:15 "Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn." has helped me a lot as I miss my sister. 

She has not changed her physical location, but emotionally, she is in another universe.  I am genuinely happy for her, but geez, I totally miss her.  We used to do so many more things together, and the happier she gets, and the more progress things make for her, the less of my sister I get to see. 

I am trying not to sound to selfish, but I can see this slumber party coming to an end soon, and quite frankely, its bitter sweet.  My party is ending, but her will just be beginning, and then that opens a whole new chapter...and for that I rejoice with her!  I really love my TSINW, and I know I am not losing her, but goodness, I really do miss her!