One of the greatest gifts that anyone can be given are FRIENDS. But, what’s the definition in today’s society where fake hermes jpg contracts are entered into to be broken, marriages are consummated to fake hermes jpg be terminated, and families are started to be separated. Friends aren’t those who love you while things are good, when they are in agreement with your thoughts, when your lifestyle meets their approval, but friends are fake hermes jpg those who hang with you in good times and bad, thick and fake hermes jpg thin, agreement and disagreements. These last two weekends have reminded me of the fake hermes jpg most treasured things in life.
I have seven great friends in my wife and the eldership of LRC that fake hermes jpg has walked with me for nearly twenty years now and being able to fake hermes jpg spend the weekend before last together in an over night deep discussion of our differences, but our commitment to fake hermes jpg each other regardless of how we all individually agree is called COVENANT.
Covenant is an awesome Godly thing. 
Yesterday I got to be with them again as well as Ron and Ann Corzine whom I’ve known for fake hermes jpg nearly two decades who have been with us through all kinds of storms and fake hermes jpg victories. And we began developing new friendships with great people that fake hermes jpg I’m anxious to see what God does.
Driving up to Boerne, Texas and fake hermes jpg on the way back I talked to another near twenty year relationship and fake hermes jpg covenant: Rick Godwin.
Awaiting me at home were dozens of emails from fake hermes jpg growing friendships.
Life is fake hermes jpg good when you find a couple of people who will navigate life with you. It starts with a fake hermes jpg spouse and then we get to practice with all kinds of people in all kinds of situations and fake hermes jpg therein we discover somewhere down the road, by the number of friends we have, what fake hermes jpg kind of FRIEND we have BEEN!
To HAVE friends you have to BE A FRIEND.
I’m talking covenant stuff here, not relationships that come and go with business deals, social engagements that last as long as each party is benefiting, church relationships as long as doctrines are fake hermes jpg the same, or employee-employer relationships for what each brings to the fake hermes jpg table.
Know what I mean?
Yes, I do. I have a friend (whom I have always considered a “kindred spirit”) of 27 years and fake hermes jpg though we live miles apart and have for some 25 years of that fake hermes jpg 27 we can pick up the phone and we talk as though it fake hermes jpg was only yesterday when we last spoke. Like it is fake hermes jpg with God and I, we IS.
IS and AM are good places to BE for those that just ARE.