Friendship...

I am thankful for my girlfriends. I love their different personalities. I love that we can laugh together, pray together and cry together. I love to sit over a leisure lunch and talk about whatever is on our hearts and know we are listening and care about each other. I am thankful for the friends that pray for me. I am thankful for my Bible study girlfriends and love our times together. I am thankful for the friends that love to play games and laughter fills the air every time we get together. I am thankful for a friend that sends me a card of encouragement every week and has for years. I love when a friend calls, just to give me a sweet word of encouragement or to see how my day is going. I am thankful for friends that invite me to Sunday lunch when my husband is out of town. I am thankful for friends that are willing to drive because they know I don't really like to. I am thankful for the friends that have been there for me in times of sorrow, as well as times of joy. I am thankful for the little spur of the moment lunches with girlfriends that happen now and then. I love when a friend knows what I like and sometimes surprises me with a little gift "just because". I am thankful for my old friends. Those friends I have had for years and we have gone though much together. I am thankful for my new friends and glad to get to know them better. I am thankful for my long distance friends. Those are the ones that I do not see often, but when we are together it is like no time has passed! I hope my girlfriends read this and know how much they mean to me! Why don't you let a girlfriend know what she means to you today! Write or call her! I know she will be blessed!

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life.

Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

~~Charles Haddon Spurgeon