Friends

As morning gets underway in our part of the world, I listen to the birds outside greeting the morning and each other with their various songs. Thinking of songs, my mind moves to a quote I heard recently: "A friend is someone who learns your song and will sing it for you when you forget or can't sing it for yourself--and will continue until you can sing it again."

The world is full of acquaintances--people we know by face or by name--people we'll nod or smile at when we pass them in the aisle at the store or on a Sunday morning before or after worship. But when the line is crossed into friendship--when we begin to learn and sing each other's songs--we realize we've found someone who will sing us through the tears, through the dark times, until we can again greet the morning.

Each of us may have many acquaintances, or even several true friends. Who knows your song? Whose songs do you know?