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A Friend
A friend is like a shade tree
Beside a summer way.
A friend is like the sunshine
That makes a perfect day.
A friend is like a flower
That's worn close to the heart.
A friend is like a treasure
With which one will not part.
Author Unknown
HEARTPRINTS.
Whatever our hands touch...we leave fingerprints on.
On walls, on furniture,on door knobs, dishes and books.
As we touch we leave our identity..
Oh please where ever I go today...help me leave heartprints.
Heartprints of compassion, understanding and love.
Heartprints of kindness and genuine concern.
May my heart touch a lonely neighbor...or a runaway daughter...
or an anxious mother...or perhaps a dear friend!
I shall go out today...to leave heartprints...
and if some one should say...
"I felt your touch!"
May that one sense be...your loving touch through me!
Author Unknown
Friends Are Like Angels...
Our friends are like angels,
Who brighten our days.
In all kinds of wonderful,
Magical ways.
Their thoughtfulness comes,
As a gift from above.
And we feel we're surrounded,
By warm, caring love.
Like upside-down rainbows,
Their smiles bring the sun.
And they fill ho-hum moments,
With laughter and fun.
Friends are like angels,
Without any wings.
Blessing our lives,
With the most precious things.
Once In Every Life
Once in every life, there comes someone
Who opens the inner door and speaks to the heart and soul.
Who touches you so completely, so exquisitely,
Their sweet passing changes your life... forever.
In that one brief moment, that one person reminds you that,
Everything you have hoped for can be realized,
Everything you have dreamed of can come true,
Everything you have waited for Is now waiting for you.
The purpose of their coming and touching you so deeply,
Was not that you change them, or they change you.
But that you remember the gift that is you,
And the love you have to share.
Once in every life,
There comes someone so special,
Who gives you the gift of your freedom
And the courage to reach for who you are.
James S. Nelson - 1995
"I Love You Because"
I love you, not only for what you are,
But for what I am when I am with you.
I love you, not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what you are making of me.
I love you for the part of me
That you bring out;
I love you for putting your hand
Into my heaped-up heart
And passing over all the foolish, weak things
That you can't help dimly seeing there,
And for drawing out into the light
All the beautiful belongings
That no one else had looked
Quite far enough to find.
I love you because you have done
More than any creed
could have done to make me good,
And more than any fate
Could have done to make me happy.
You have done it without a touch,
Without a word, without a sign.
You have done it by being yourself.
Perhaps that is what
Being a friend means after all.
Roy Croft
