FRIENDS ARE COMING TODAY

Friday, September 14, 2007

Someone else writing this blog may have said, “Company is coming today.” I choose to say, “Friends are coming.” They will be company but since we have been friends for almost forty years, I prefer the word friends. And friends they are—friends indeed.

They have been staying in Palm Springs for a week. Their home is several hundred miles north of there. This morning they got up around 6:30 and started driving east toward Phoenix. Now Phoenix is a nice place but it is a four hour drive in the wrong direction from their home. They have absolutely no reason for coming here except to see us for a couple of days.

These friends mean everything to us. We know that our lives over the years would have had paltry meaning had not one day our lives connected with the lives of these people who have turned out to be our most treasured friends.

If you have such friends you know you should be glad!