The Best Gift

Of all the gifts God has blessed us with in our time on earth, none is so beautiful, so touching, as the gift of friendship. There is a saying that goes...¨Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.¨How true it is. True friends know each others weaknesses, they know what makes the other one laugh, they understand the quirks, and may even shake their heads in disbelief at the others´ hairbrained ideas. But true friends accept the whole package and choose to love you for who you are. They know when to overlook faults, and when to confront. They may offer you a hug one minute and then turn around and shake some sense into you the next minute. And that is the beauty of a true friend...someone you can relax with and never have to question their loyalty.
God has blessed me, in the past few years especially, with people that I can honestly call ´true friends.´ They have jumped the boundary from casual acuaintances to being sisters and brothers. So to my true friends out there...and you know who you are...I thank you...for your patience, for telling it to me straight, for your hugs, for the memories, and for the love. And I´ll always be here for you. Because the best part of our friendships is...that they will last forever.
What a good God we have, to allow something as precious as friendship to continue into eternity. Because the Man who died to save us is our Friend...the Friend of sinners.