If there is one ingredient
which adds warmth and love to our lives...
it is Friendship.
If there is one relationship
to
help us through all the others...
it is Friendship.
Friends surround us
with
the beauty of their caring.
With friends we can share
what we see,
what we feel
and what we love.
Friends help us with our problems
because they listen.
And as they listen
we begin to hear
the language of
our own hearts.
With friends
we can
walk along
the remembered
paths of our lives
and
completely share our experiences.
With friends
we can work
the soil of forgotten dreams
that needed to be tended
and
nurtured once again.
With friends
we can
plant the seed of our hearts new dreams.
We can always return to a friend
like going back to a special place...
and find the same warm feeling
unchanged by time or distance.
Life gives us friends
so we can share the precious times
and memorable moments
of
being children,
and teenagers,
and adults,
and parents,
and grandparents.
Life gives us friends
so we can share
the growing up...
and growing down
and old.
With friends
we have a place to go
to be accepted and understood.
Together we can laugh.
Together we can cry.
Our thoughts are heard,
our feelings are held
in the heart of a friend.
With friends
our lives are made
more full,
more rich,
more open,
beautiful and blessed.