And in that promise lies everything!
Build friendship on a foundation of trust and respect with understanding and accepting of each other as you are. A true friend is always there when you have need, always there to lend a helping hand, to give wise advice when we can't find it for ourselves, inspires us to grow, loves us for who we are, forgives us for our faults.
"Friends sing from the same song sheet and harmonize perfectly with each other."
They are to each other like the sunshine is to flowers and where two friends gather their brightness attracts others to draw closer to them. A good friend is there for us and we for them in our darkest nights and our happiest days. They are like the feeling of welcome you get when you arrive home, the joy of knowing there is someone we can turn to when in need or to share our good news with. Someone who will just listen when we need that, someone who will never try to control, only help. A friend is an ear to listen, a shoulder to cry on, a confidant, with a heart to feel and understand. And true friendship grows every day!
" The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him." Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we are to find friendship we must be a friend first. Be a good listener. Everyone needs someone to talk to and bounce ideas and subjects off of. And no one is useless in this world if he can listen and lighten the burdens of others. "What a good blessing is a friend with breast so trusty that you may bury all your secrets in it."
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows." Jean Paul Richter
But what friendship isn't....is another matter. Sometimes in the disguise of friendship we try to assert our control, authority, ideas, our way of life on our friends trying maybe to make them accept our ways, so as to make our ways acceptable to us. So that their approval then makes us "right." This is not friendship. Each person has to make his or her own choices, otherwise we will not learn from those choices. To just give in to others and not live your own life slows you down on your path to God.
But we must be fair and kind to those others whose opinions differ from our own and live by being an example and a friend to all. Be a friend to all by passing along happy thoughts, words of kindness, smiles, sharing of ideas and gifts, a helping hand in times of need or just everyday. Live and share your "Best Selves." A gentle, loving, caring attitude will help to create true friendships from the heart.
" And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures . For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." The Prophet
With true friends we will be able to walk our path in life a little easier and perhaps bring the world closer to God.
"Before us is a future all unknown, a path untrod;
Beside us a friend well loved and known;
That friend is God:"
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