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Mourning Friendships

July 18, 2012 — 10 Comments

I know, I know, I haven’t written in a while (yes, Floyd, this time I haven’t written, it’s not your email *wink). You want the honest truth of it all? I’ve been in a rut with nothing to say. And I figured it was better to say nothing for a while than to try to force something that would not reach anyone at all. After all, I started this blog in a desire to reach at least one person’s heart every single time I wrote.

Just a moment ago, I opened a post from my friend Duane Scott. The post is titled, The Power of Friendship. After a good moment with a friend who came to help him move his desk, he was speaking with his dad and in the conversation he asked his dad what happened in relation to how people used to go to each other’s houses all the time. The line that he wrote from his dad really hit me,

“I don’t know. The world just isn’t that way anymore.” He turns back to his computer. “We have email instead.” Continue Reading…

The Gift

June 5, 2012 — 3 Comments
From April: This is a guest post from a woman I am proud to call a friend, Toni Gonzales. Toni has been “part of the family” for many years. She is a sweetheart of a person, a fantastic mom, and we always get a great laugh when we start counting down to Christmas every year! Toni is currently working on creating a blog of her own which I will encourage all of you to read. I am blessed to have Toni posting today! Continue Reading…

The walls we built…

September 15, 2011 — 12 Comments
Friendship

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I ran across this quote today:

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn’t supposed to ever let you down probably will.  You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it’s harder every time.  You’ll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken.  You’ll fight with your best friend.  You’ll blame a new love for things an old one did.  You’ll cry because time is passing too fast, and you’ll eventually lose someone you love.  ~Author Unknown Continue Reading…

Influences

August 6, 2010 — Leave a comment
“You are the average of the five people
you spend the most time with.”
~Jim Rohen
Who are your closest friends? Who do you go to first when something is wrong? Who do you hang out with the most? Are they Godly, caring and all around good people to be hanging out with? Or are they negative, bitter, angry?
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” really stuck out to me this week. It was just one of those random quotes on my iGoogle page when I opened it up, but it was so powerful in what it had to say. I know that the times when I am hanging around people who are constantly negative, I become negative and can’t seem to pick myself back up. But when I hang around people who are positive and encouraging (not that they don’t have bad days, but I am speaking on a whole), then it is easier for me to be positive and encouraging.
It’s all about who you choose to be. If you choose to be negative…continue hanging out with those people…but if you choose to be positive, you might consider a change in who your close friends are.