Friendship

If you asked twenty different people to describe what friendship is, you would [most likely] get twenty different answers.  George Eliot wrote my favorite definition of friendship, which perfectly describes the kind of friend I want to be.  It’s pretty nice to have friends like this, too!

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

Dear Lord,

Thank You for treasured friends; make me that same kind of treasure in the lives of others.  In Jesus’ Name, Amen.