Good Morning Everyone!!
If you know me, you know sleep isn't something I spend alot of time doing. When I am up, I think. I search for understanding and purpose. Here is the "thought" for the "week". In quotes, cause the other thing ya'll know about me is I like to write...alot!
"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."—Aristotle
You can have a lot of acquaintances, but only a few people will become your best friends. These are kindred spirits, whose souls were "knit together." Friendships like this will endure, even though the intensity of the friendship will ebb and flow over time.
"A true friend stabs you in the front."—Oscar Wilde
"An honest answer is the sign of true friendship."-- Proverbs 24:26
Leave it to Oscar Wilde to lay out an important truth with such wry humor. A true friend is one who helps you see the truth, even if it hurts. This doesn't mean we can go around stabbing our friends with hurtful words. Rather, it means being up front with friends about important issues, raising questions with love, never gossiping or putting them down to others behind their backs.
"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know."—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real friendships don't just happen, and they aren't maintenance free. Ask questions both in conversation with your friend and when you're alone: "How would you describe our friendship?" Friendships take patience, time and effort. But, Oh, the rewards!!!
So to my friends....Love you and appreciate you and the times we can spend together and the times we're apart, but thinking of one another.
Off to work~~
If you know me, you know sleep isn't something I spend alot of time doing. When I am up, I think. I search for understanding and purpose. Here is the "thought" for the "week". In quotes, cause the other thing ya'll know about me is I like to write...alot!
"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."—Aristotle
You can have a lot of acquaintances, but only a few people will become your best friends. These are kindred spirits, whose souls were "knit together." Friendships like this will endure, even though the intensity of the friendship will ebb and flow over time.
"A true friend stabs you in the front."—Oscar Wilde
"An honest answer is the sign of true friendship."-- Proverbs 24:26
Leave it to Oscar Wilde to lay out an important truth with such wry humor. A true friend is one who helps you see the truth, even if it hurts. This doesn't mean we can go around stabbing our friends with hurtful words. Rather, it means being up front with friends about important issues, raising questions with love, never gossiping or putting them down to others behind their backs.
"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know."—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real friendships don't just happen, and they aren't maintenance free. Ask questions both in conversation with your friend and when you're alone: "How would you describe our friendship?" Friendships take patience, time and effort. But, Oh, the rewards!!!
So to my friends....Love you and appreciate you and the times we can spend together and the times we're apart, but thinking of one another.
Off to work~~
posted by Charla | 6:20 PM
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