Sunday Reflection - Some Thoughts on Friendship

This week I received the following message from a friend – I thought it worth sharing with you

ON FRIENDSHIP

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.

When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person.

When someone is in your life for a REASON,

it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.

They have come to assist you through a difficulty,

to provide you with guidance and support.

To aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.

They may seem like a godsend and they are.

They are there for the reason you need them to be.

Then, without any wrongdoing on your part

or at an inconvenient time,

This person will say or do

something to bring the relationship to an end.

Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.

Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.

What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire

fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered

and now it is time to move on.

Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because

your turn has come to share, grow or learn.

They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.

They may teach you something you have never done.

They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.

Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.

LIFETIME - relationships teach you lifetime lessons,

Things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional

Foundation.

Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have

learned to use in all other relationships and

areas of your life.

It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

Thank you for being a part of my life,

Whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime.

Peacesojourner

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And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Kahlil Gibran

Friends always show their love. What are brothers for if not to share troubles? - Proverbs 17:17

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up. Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10

“The only way to have a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sunday Reflection - Footprints in the Sand

Every time that I stand at the water's edge at the beach I think about the words from "Footprints."

These photos were taken at Cocoa Beach, Florida

looking out at the Atlantic Ocean.

Footprints

One night a man had a dream. He dreamed 
he was walking along the beach with the LORD.


Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand: one belonging to him, and the other to the LORD.





When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints in the sand.


He noticed that many times along the path of his life there was only one set of footprints.



He also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times in his life.


This really bothered him and he questioned the LORD about it:


"LORD, you said that once I decided to follow you, you'd walk with me all the way. But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life, there is only one set of footprints. I don't understand why when I needed you most you would leave me."



The LORD replied:


"My son, my precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you."

written by Carolyn Joyce Carty

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The Value of a Friend

9 - Two are better than one,

Because they have a good reward for their labor.

10 - For if they fall, one will lift up his companion.

But woe to him who is alone when he falls,

For he has no one to help him up.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (New King James Version)

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photos by peacesojourner