Forever Friends

Close friends are not always the easiest to come by. They often come from shared commonalities like (childhood, college, church, work, hobbies, foods, handicaps, and crisis). If you have never listened to Michael W. Smith’s 1983 song, Friends, it clearly summarizes what a forever friend is. Do you have one of those?

Follow through this analogy with me, if you were going to the best friend store to buy the ingredients to create the ideal friend, what would you buy? I’d get two boxes of loyalty, a gallon of liquid courage, a tub of reliability, a package of commonality powder, two tubes of laughter, and finally a large bottle of secret-keeping oil. After I mixed the right proportions of each, I would hope to be pleasantly surprised with the results.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if finding a forever friend was that easy? It is a shame that some people go their entire life without finding what they need the most. A great deal of the time the popular (sometimes beautiful) crowd can make more (surface) friends than they need. You are doing well in life if you have one close friend you can honestly bear your souls to. They are the true sparkling diamonds in your existence.

King Solomon was knowledgeable when he wrote in Proverbs 18:24 and 17:27 of The Message “Friends come and friends go, but a true friend sticks by you like family. You use steel to sharpen steel, and one friend sharpens another.” I would add to the above sayings from wise ruler by saying that a true friend can be closer to you than your own biological relatives. Today, my hope for you is if you have found this that you will cherish it. If this is not so in your life my wish is for it to happen soon.