We love and need them
March 18, 2008 (Tuesday)
Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, doesn’t have a swelled head, doesn’t force itself on others, isn’t always “me first,” doesn’t fly off the handle, doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, doesn’t revel when others grovel, takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, puts up with anything, trusts God always, always looks for the best, never looks back, but keeps going to the end (1 Corinthians 13:4-7 The Message).
Please complete this sentence: “A friend is..”
I did a little research and found completed sentences that others have written. Here are some of them.
“A friend is someone who is always there and will always care.”
“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
“A friend is someone who goes with you in the good times and bad times.”
“A friend is a person who will never give up on you.”
“A friend is a person who asks how you are and really wants to know.”
George Eliot wrote, “Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
When you list all your assets, don’t forget to list your friends. A little rhyming verse emphasizes the value of friends:
“The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends,
And no investment on the street pays larger dividends,
For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent,
And he who gives in friendship’s name shall reap what he has spent.”
“A true friend sticks by you like family” (Proverbs 18:24 The Message).