And friends are friends forever...

Our Daily Bread
A song by Michael W Smith talks about a deep friendship that can exist between friends when God is in the friendship.  How cool is that?  I have been very fortunate to experience this many times in my life.  I am very thankful!

The story of Jonathan and David is peculiar.  Jonathan defies his father, King Saul, who wants to kill David because he is horribly jealous of him.  Yes, these things happened in the Old Testament.  Don't be surprised!  Jonathan warns David and helps him escape.  The passage talks about their deep friendship.  They hated to leave each other.

On a personal note, I described myself to be more like David in the Bible than any other character.  I seem to have a lot of his better qualities and a lot of his worse qualities.  I explained this to a close friend to help him understand me better.  It seemed to help especially when we thought about the psalms and the ups and downs that David wrote about in song.  That is so like me!  hehehe

Lord, thank you for friendships.  Thank you for helping us know ourselves so we can better serve you.

Witness Wednesday
I am giving the devotional at the Emmaus team meeting on Saturday.  I have been praying about what to say and what scripture passage to use.  After some false starts in writing the devotional, God lead me to Luke 7 that contains the story of the woman who washed the feet of Jesus with her tears and hair.  What a tremendous story!  The last part of the story is: those whose who have been forgiven much, love much.  I made some points about how this passage relates to our walk.  I am still praying about whether or not I should sing a short song reference from the devotional.  I will decide before Saturday.  I will post the devotional after I present it to the group.

Other Stuff
I had a great evening last night with a close friend.  Some special friends are taking me out for my birthday different evenings this week.  My birthday is on Saturday.  We had a nice dinner, played with his new cat and talked for over 3.5 hours!  I am so excited about what God is doing in each of our lives.  We are able to talk and pray about it together.  That is even better!  Praise God!

Going to dinner with my hero tonight.  I am looking forward to that.

Hang in there, my friends.  I will be upbeat and steady.  That is what I do...