For a friend.

In high school, my friends and I started blogging because it was the cool new thing. We read each other's blogs, and that was it.

In college, I discovered other blogs. News blogs, blogs about fashion, and blogs about life.

I couldn't tell you how I've ended up subscribing to most of the blogs on my Google Reader. Usually, I read something, somewhere, and I ended up on their site, and just started following.

What I didn't expect in that is discovering a kinship with others in the "blogosphere."

Tonight my heart is breaking for a friend that I've never met, who lives nearly a thousand miles away from me, and who I have no connection to other than the fact that we happened to find each other through blogging, and discovered we share the experience of, among other things, being two single twenty-somethings making it on our own.

Tonight I'm asking you, all three or five or whatever of you who read this, to pray for her. For a few months she's been fighting mono, and then got pneumonia, has a handful of cysts throughout her body, and now is going through one of the saddest things that could occur in a woman's life -- finding out she can never have children. On top of that, a child she loves dearly, almost as if she was her own, is fighting for her life after falling into a pool.

Pray for the little girl, Olivia, that she'll find her breath and come out of the ICU strong and healthy. Pray for her family, that they'll have the strength to press on through this, to not give up hope on even the darkest of nights. That they'll be taken care of and comforted by God.

Pray for my friend, AB. Pray that she'll find strength in God, that He will hold her in her distress and keep her safe as she travels back and forth from the hospital to home. Pray for her body, fighting so many battles at once, that she will be healed. Pray for her heart, that she will find hope and peace, and that she will see God's will in her body's limitations.

AB, I don't know if you're keeping up on all your blogs right now, with so much happening. But know that I'm praying for you and for little Olivia.