A passage I recently read prompted this post. It expresses gratitude for friendship and the many ways that people walk with us through life.
Friends accompany us along differing paths and in differing depths. They have shared times that have been significant to us – difficult, perplexing, reflective, joyful and just plain fun. In that sense they represent chapters in our living history. They bring out the best in us and give us permission to be our “real” selves, even when it isn’t our best. They bear witness to who we are and what we are about.
I explored this theme in The Company of Friends, a post from this blog a year ago. Daphne Rose Kingma’s passage below brought it all back. Blessed are we who can acknowledge the gifts of our friends’ companionship.
Thank you for the circumstances that brought us together and have bound us into the sacred bundle of life. Thank you also for the gifts of our friendship: for knowledge that comforts, for words that encourage, for insight that blesses, for all the experiences shared, for the sweet bliss of deeply knowing each other in so many ways; for history and a hope of the future, for conversation and laughter, for silence, for bearing each other’s witness truly, for holding each other safe in our hearts with great love and tenderness.
Today is a good time to pause and give thanks for the friends in your world – maybe even contact them to tell them how much they mean to you.
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Bob, you are a treasured friend…always.
I am blessed in our friendship, Melisa, and grateful for your gifts of healing and those of Scooter and other equine partners.
The “gift” of you and your friendship is something I treasure. Thanks Bob for all you do and have done!
I am blessed by you and our connection and celebrate all you do for those in your circles of care.
How sweet to be friends and to take the time to embrace and give thanks for friendships. Thank you.
I celebrate you and all you do to cultivate friendships with your distinctive brand of joy.