hold everything

new number one prayer request: my friend mirabelle (GOD will know who you're talking about) had a nervous breakdown about a month ago. she called me today and talked for almost two hours not making any sense, talking about being manic, no one believing her about anything, screaming on the inside, people never coming back from what she's been through, and honestly i don't even know what else because it was not at all rational. it's kind of scary. i called her brother, and he filled me in a bit, but he said this was all unsettling because they thought she was getting better. (thankfully her best friend is there right now, so she heard how mirabelle sounded.) i asked if i should go to chicago to visit her, and he said that various family members have been there most of this time, and that i shouldn't feel like i have to go, but that if i want to i should feel free to go whenever. she indicated that she wanted me to, so i think i will sometime soon, i just have to call her husband to figure out what works for them.
one thing she did keep saying, though, was that she knows she can get through this because GOD has dealt her a good hand, and that she knows there's a GOD because collective intelligence proves it. (she's not a Christian.) she said that one way she's been getting through this is by thinking of all the people she loves, and she keeps thinking about me and all the conversations we've had about GOD over the years; that she knows that i've been praying for her and that's what's going to get her through. she said that she's seen me get through stuff that only saints get through, and i did it because i'm a saint, i'm close to GOD. she also said that she believes that if she documents what she's going through (she was a journalist before becoming a stay-at-home mom), it can help people, and that's her purpose; and thus it's my purpose, too, because i'm helping her through it. "that's part of why i wanted to call you - to tell you you have a purpose!"
please, please lift my mirabelle up in your prayers (and her husband and 3-year-old daughter, and her mother, whom she's very concerned about).
and me, too.