From Prayers with Purpose for
Women by Jackie M. Johnson:
My
Friends
THE POWER OF CONNECTION
Thank You for My Friendships
A man of many
companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a
brother.
PROVERBS
18:24
Lord, I
thank You for my wonderful friends! As I think about the treasure chest of my
close friends, casual friends, and acquaintances, I am grateful for the
blessings and the joys each one brings to my life. Thank you for my “heart”
friends, my loyal sister friends who listen, care, and encourage me. They are
my faithful companions. I acknowledge that You, Lord, are the giver of all good
gifts, and I thank You for Your provision in my friendships.
In Jesus’
Name, I pray.
Amen.
As we end
this week, a week of more hurricanes, devastation, pain, uncertainty,
confusion, sadness, fears, frustrations and stress, I think about
the friends TLC and I have had in our lives. (My life? Long. Hers? Not so much.) We’ve been beyond lucky to have the most amazing women to help us get
through all the tough stuff. The most amazing women with which to laugh. And
cry.
Many of
our dearest “heart” friends are the same! At some point (I think about the time
TLC got married, maybe?), age started becoming irrelevant and many of my
friends became TLC’s. (Not just Moms of her friends…or older women who’d been
my friends for years and years. And years.) For me, those young women I’d known
for most of their lives—watching them grow up with TLC from toddlers to lovely adults—became my friends, too.
The above
prayer was one I came to early this morning as I engaged in my daily ritual of
reading The Bible and reading
from six other God/Jesus books. I cherished every lovely word of this prayer
because I cherish every second of every day I’ve enjoyed the magnificent friends
I have here on this sometimes scary Earth...
As we start a new week, I wish for each of Y’all HAPPY CONNECTIONS with your friends—old and new. Don’t take them for granted. Tell them how much you adore and need them. We never know when we'll have missed that chance...
Hugs…
ELC
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