A Good Friend
I am lucky.
Blessed.
Fortunate.
Whatever you wanna say….
I have one really amazing, really gets me, really gives to me, friend and I realize how rare it is.
I have other friends who are wonderful, who I laugh with and who bring such joy to my life. I hope they know who they are – they should, and I probably should tell them more often how much I need them in my life.
But to have that one friend that will ask you the deep questions that will say to you what you need to hear when you do NOT want to hear it and who will go the distance with you? That’s something to be treasured.
When on this spiritual journey that I am on, this is a friend who has been with me through it all. My husband and I used to be youth group leaders in our church and she was there.
I mentored her.
And now she mentors me.
That’s the beauty in true friendships – they see past the age differences, the life circumstance differences and they keep on going. They make the time for you even when you may only have a window of a few hours in a 6 month period with a lot of other people to see – but they make the time.
I hope you have someone like that in your life. If not, search for it. Find someone. Ask someone to be that.
You can’t get through the hardships and joys of life without someone like this to share it with, and quite frankly I don’t know that you can really grow as a person without that other set of eyes that really knows you and lights the way when you are in darkness.
There’s a quote I love that says, “A good friend is cheaper than therapy.”
Thank you my friend, for being my therapy.
