FRIENDSHIP

If there is one ingredient
which adds warmth
and love to our lives…
It is friendship.

If there is one relationship
to help us through
all the others…
It is friendship.

Friends surround us with
the beauty of their caring.
With friends we can share
what we see, what we feel,
and what we love.

Friends help us with our problems
because they listen. And as they
listen we begin to hear the
language of our own hearts.

With friends
we can walk along the
remembered paths of our lives…
and completely share
our experiences.

With friends
we can work the soil
of forgotten dreams
that needed to be tended
and nurtured once again.
With friends we can plant
the seed of our hearts
new dreams.

We can always return to a friend,
like going back to a special place.
And find the same warm feeling
unchanged by time or distance.

Life gives us friends so that we
can share the precious times…
and memorable moments of being
children and teenagers,
and adults and parents,
and grandparents.

Life gives us friends so we can
share the growing up…
and growing down and old.

With friends
we have a place to go
to be accepted and understood.
Together we can laugh.
Together we can cry.

Our thoughts are heard,
our feelings are held
in the heart of a friend.
With our friends
our lives are made more full,
more rich, more open,
Beautiful and Blessed!