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Friends can be the hands, feet and heart of
Friends come into your life for
seasons and for reasons (as I recently heard at a dear friend’s
funeral). I have often thought of life like a journey down a
river. Sometimes people are on that river with you. Sometimes you stop at
the shore; sometimes they stop at the shore. Sometimes the current
separates you and sometimes you just go in I cannot say how much friends mean to me, how much I need them and all the ways I love them. That is Deeper Than Words can go. I can say that I have come to see that people, and especially really good friends, are the gold, silver and jewels of life.
Here are some of my friends and some of the things they
are into:
The Music of Gail Dorey - "Deeper Than
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Friends and “church family” are like air – they are
vital in my life. They encourage, hold me accountable, instruct, and keep
me reaching for excellence. They teach, love, appreciate, help me stay
steady in the storms and bring me great joy and laughter. Friends come
along side - they mourn, laugh, and cry with me and bring me excitement
and delight from the things they do in their lives ….and “just because”
they are.
God. They
are often that for me.
I struggle to really live in the “now” and enjoy
friends in the moments that God has given me with them. Life is fragile
and the sting of separation, death and illness is still a reality. I find
that this is true all the more as the years go by.