this is my 1000th post! hahaa:)
and what better way to celebrate it than to post something about what the Word of God tells us and celebrate the beauty of friendship?:)
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“A friend loves at all times” (Proverbs 17:17, NIV).
According to an article in an English magazine, “A true friend is one who has the courage to disagree with us when [we are] in the wrong, and advise us for our own good, rather than let his sympathy or sentimentality cause him to agree.”
Charles Spurgeon once said, “Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trail had they not found a friend.”
Dr. Alfred Adler, internationally known psychiatrist, based the following conclusions on a careful analysis of thousands of clients: “The most important task imposed by religion has always been ‘Love thy neighbor.’ It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow man that has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury on others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.”It may not be the best but it is true that we can live without romantic love, but we cannot live healthy without at least one loving friend.
As Dinah Craik so eloquently said, “Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.” And, oh, the priceless value of having at least one such deep abiding friendship.
Thank God for the gift of friendship.
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-for a friend's a friend forever
if the Lord's the Lord of them
and a friend will not say never
'cos the welcome will not end
though it's hard to let you go
in the Father's hands we know
that a lifetime's not too long
to live, as friends-
thank God for all the friends i've made ever since i've started making friends, and for all the brothers and sisters who accept me for who i am and love me as a child of God.
a friend's for eternity:)