Friendship is a blessing, and a friend is the channel through whom great
emotional, spiritual, and sometimes even physical blessings flow.
Friends can cheer us when we’re sorrowful or depressed. Friends can
challenge us when we allow ourselves to get beyond our reasonable
boundaries. Friends can motivate us when we’re ready to give in, and
they can provide for us when life falls apart. They are there when all
is well, and we want someone with whom to share life’s pleasant and
memorable moments. We often just want them around to have a good time,
to laugh, to act silly, to enjoy some mutually liked activity. In how
many ways have friends enriched our lives and made us feel loved,
accepted, respected and cared for? Probably, too many to list, and the
list grows daily.
A
lot of people go through life with only a few friends. It seems that
some have less than that. They have no one on whom they can call in good
times or bad. There is no one with whom to bounce ideas around, or to
talk about deep and troubling subjects. They have no one to call in
times of need or difficulty. They are at the mercy of life, standing
alone. Life is full of entertaining and invigorating relationships because it is full of friends.
There ought to be a course in school on friendship. Of course, some
people are perfectly happy to operate with fewer friends. They might
rather have a few deep and loyal friends, than many superficial ones.
Others thrive best when friends are everywhere and numerous. It is not
so much the number of friends that is important as is the possession of
friends, period.
It is safe to say that when God created the world and all the majestic
things in it, when he streaked the heavens with radiant color and the
earth with grand mountains and awe-inspiring canyons, when he painted
the plains with waving grasses and erected noble forests of towering
trees, he outdid it all by creating friends. May God bless me with all the friends me need, and may he turn me into a blessing by using me as a friend to others.
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