Friends...I'm not even sure where to start, but I truly believe I have the best friends in the world! I have been very blessed in my life to have great friends. I have childhood friends, high school friends and college friends. Then, I have the friends that I met when I got married and I have the others that I met at the various places I have worked. Then... there are those friends who you met through other friends - and they changed your life forever. The best part about these sweet people...I don't have to talk to them everyday. I don't have to see them every week. I know they are there ~ always only a phone call away. I can go for years and not talk to or see them, and pick up exactly where we left off.
In Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10 it says, "Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up." We all make mistakes in life, and we all say things that we regret. Sometimes we really wish our filter would work when speaking - but it doesn't always happen. The fact is... we are all human, we all make mistakes and bad choices and we all wish we could take things back. But...we can't. Once the words come out, it is impossible to take them back. We all have times when the world is crashing around us, and we need our friends to pick us up. Our friends are the ones who have faith in us, when we don't have faith in ourselves.
So tonight... I am very thankful for the people in my life that I am blessed to call friend!
