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A Few Good Friends
If you live long enough, you will lose more than a few good friends. Some while you live and others when they die. Ironically, funerals bring together family and friends who you and I may have gone years without seeing. Losing a friend, we press the pause button long enough to reflect on the way friend connections keep us going till we’re gone. Consider how God uses friends to shape our lives, as someone described friendship. “Friends for a season Friends for a reason Friends for life” F*R*I*E*N*D*S If you watched the sitcom Friends when it was the number one show on TV during its ten years, 1994–2004, Matthew Perry…
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A Few of My Favorite Books
The prompt from StoryWorth, a gift my daughter gave me for Christmas, led me to consider what otherwise I would have avoided even thinking about. “What are your favorite books?” This challenge to select from beaucoup books I have read forced me to ignore all but the top titles that came to mind without having to browse my bookshelves. To be honest, my favorite book is the book I am currently reading or else I would lay that book aside in favor of one I have read and loved. Yet there are so many books to read, too many to count in fact, and I always tell people that a…
