Thankful Thursday: Friendship

 

The last week has been full of twists and turns, and the constant through it all, besides the Lord? Our friends.

                I am thankful for friends who have prayed (and are praying) for us and for my parents as we navigate Dad’s illness.

I am thankful for little kiddos who are praying for all of us in their bedtime prayers.

                I am thankful for texts that pop up on my phone throughout the day – friends asking how things are going and how they might help. Even when there isn’t a way to help, I’m thankful that they ask.

                I am thankful for friends who show up with coffee to sustain the day.

                I am thankful for friends who encourage us to rest and take some time, rather than pushing us to rush through plan after plan.

                Friendship takes on many different forms, but all of them together have carried and sustained us in these last few days.

                I’m thankful for my friends, and I hope you have good friends in your world who carry you during the hard days, too! And I sure hope this is the kind of friend I am to those around me. It is certainly my goal to be the sustaining kind of friend. I hope I am.