These qualities I find in myself and in others around me:
When I was little, I used to believe in the concept of one best friend, and
then I started to become a woman. And then I found out that if you allow
your heart to open up, God would show you the best in many friends.
One friend's best is needed when you're going through things with your
children.
Another friend's best is needed when you're going through things with your
mom. Another when you want to shop, share, heal, hurt, joke, or just be.
One friend will say let's pray together, another let's cry together, another
let's fight together, another let's walk away together.
One friend will meet your spiritual need, another your shoe fetish, another
your love for movies, another will be with you in your season of confusion,
another will be your clarifier, another the wind beneath your wings.
But whatever their assignment in your life, on whatever the occasion, on
whatever the day, or where ever you need them to meet you with their gym
shoes on and hair pulled back or to hold you back from making a complete
fool of yourself... those are your friends.
It may all be wrapped up in one person, but for many it's wrapped up in
several... one from 7th grade, several from high school, several from the
college years, a couple from old jobs, several from church, on some days
your mother, on others your sisters, and on some days it's the one that you
needed just for that day or week that you needed someone with a fresh
perspective, or the one who didn't know all your baggage, or the one who
would just listen without judging... those are good best friends.
I thank all my friends. Those who honor intimacy, those who hold trust, and
those who hold me up when life is just too heavy! The special bond we share
is unique.
Thanks for the words we've shared. The prayers we've sent up. The laughs,
the tears! The phone calls, the emails, the shopping, the movies, the
lunches, the dinners, the talking, talking, talking and the listening,
listening, listening....
So whether you've been there 20 minutes or 20 years, Thanks!
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