Although I’ve never been close to my parents, and I never had them to depend on, never in my life have I felt like something was missing or that I was deprived of something. As far as I’m concerned, I am so much more blessed than anyone I know. God gave me the most perfect sister. I honestly know that she came straight from Him, because only He could create such an incredible human being. Picture having the best of all best friends, a big sister, and a momma all rolled into one person. Pretty incredible, huh? Then times that by maybe a million to start, and you’ve got my sister. I honestly could not imagine being closer to anyone ever. I’ve got probably the most intense abandonment issues, and the only person besides God that I know will never leave me, is my sister. She has honestly sacrificed so much just to help me in any single way that she can. I am honored to have the privilege to call her my sister; I am honored to even know her. I honestly do not understand why God blessed me with such an amazing person in my life, but I am beyond thankful that He did. I don’t even tell her when I’m stressed, she just knows. And on top of that, she also knows how to fix it immediately. I feel like I sound weird, but I really just don’t even have enough words to explain how precious  my sister is to me. She is honestly just the best thing in my life [besides Jesus, of course]. So, thanks God, for giving me someone that I am so undeserving of.

Today, I got a call from my sister. Nothing out of the ordinary considering we talk on a daily basis. She was telling me about the College Placement Test she had to take today, and the part that meant the most to me was this:

“First thing that was on the test was an essay. We had three options: write about someone we admired and why, write about a situation we wanted to get out of and why, or what subject has had the biggest impact on my life. Wanna know how I started off my essay? “It’s simple to think of the person I admire most, because she is just about the only person in this world that I happen to look up to. Usually the person we admire is an older, more successful person than we are. The person I admire happens to be five years younger than me. My little sister Brittany has gone through more in just nineteen years than most others do in a lifetime. She is the strongest, most caring, thoughtful person I have ever met. She is always putting others before herself, and if she had a penny left to her name, she would find someone who had better use for it than she did.” I don’t remember the rest, but I just want to thank you for being the best person I know, and such a good person, because normally I hate writing, but when I’m writing about you and why I admire you, I could never run out of things to write about.”

Well, as you can imagine, I was a basket full of tears when she finished telling me all of this. It is just mind-blowing to think that my sister could admire me, because if there is anything good in me, it came from her. She is the person who shaped me into the young lady I am today. Even thinking about it now, my eyes get teary and my heart feels happy. It sincerely baffles me to hear that the most incredible person I know thinks that I am pretty incredible, too. It was just something that made my entire day brighter, as my sister has an overwhelming habit of doing. Such a blessing.