A man moved into an apartment and held an open house in order to meet new people. Many people showed up, and they seemed to enjoy themselves enormously. He invited them to come back, and frequently held parties that were the hit of the apartment complex. When he lost his job, and the funds became scarce, he cut back on his entertaining. Many of his "new friends" stopped coming around. A few stuck with him, though, and they kept coming back regardless of what he had to offer them. They were most concerned with how he was doing. The others were merely concerned with what they could get from him. Fair-weather friends are easy to come by. The real friend, one who will stand by you no matter what, is rare. It is devastating to think that we have good friends, just to find out that they could care less about us when we hit hard times. We need to have friends we know will stick with us in bad times as well as good. Our higher power is one such friend. No matter what happens, our higher power will be there when we need Him. He will never turn us away, and He loves it when we come to him with our problems. There is no better friend that we can ever hope to have than God himself. His love never fails. *higher power as you may understand him/it. Teach me what being a friend is all about. Let me see how you intended friends to act by being my friend. Make me over to do for others what you do for me. Help me to deal with people, always in love.
Later - Jeannie
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You only live once; but if you work it right, once is enough. There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
