Monday, March 16, 2009

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


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Elaine, My Sweet Girlfriend. I am so blessed to call you my friend and I feel the same way about you and all my other girlfriends, too. Your words blessed me and I'm going to do what you suggested and let my other girlfriends know how much they mean to me.
I love you always,
Marjo

Anonymous said...

Elaine,
I'm honored to be one of your friends. You are unfailingly interested in my life and you always make me feel like I'm important to you. I have been blessed so many times by your encouragement and Godly example. Besides all that, you are FUN to be with!
Love, Lynn