Friendships add to the quality to our lives. Good friends tell us the truth, they make us laugh, keep us entertained, keep our secrets and help us stand when we can’t. Learning to celebrate our friendships and the roles they play in our lives is important. Over the years, I have made lifelong friendships and have seen just how important…
We strive for perfection. Neatly wrapped lives with well knotted bows. The only problem is we are less than perfect and so are our families, friends and people we interact with on a daily basis. Recently, I have come to realise that it is in the unsuspecting imperfect places that we find the perfect things. Today’s devotional from Proverbs 31 Ministry…
Friendships. One of life’s necessary ingredients. Complicated little monsters that can make life quite difficult or filled with laughter and pleasant memories. It has struck me that while we spend so much time evaluating how our friends have betrayed us or let us down….we dont spend as much time thinking about how good a friend we’ve been. For a long…
By Melanie Shankle for Proverbs31.0rg “As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.” 1 Samuel 18:1 (ESV) One of my dearest friends is dying of cancer right now. I realize that’s not really an uplifting start to your day. But it’s the reality.…
Rose tells endless pointless stories. Blanche is carefree and flirtatious. Dorothy is sensible and sarcastic. And Sophia, well Sophia is just plain crazy. These are the main characters of the old but popular sitcom Golden Girls which chronicles the life of 4 mature women living together in Miami. I spent my Saturday watching the entire first season without taking a…
