from God’s Little Devotional Journal for Women –Honor Books, Tulsa Oklahoma, pg. 173
Is or was your spouse your best friend?
How privileged you are if the answer is yes. Perhaps an even more important question to ask is this: Are you are were you a good friend to your spouse? In being a good friend, you often gain a best friend!
A true friend will let you empty your heart when it feels overloaded by stress, concern, or worry.
Sir Francis Bacon once wrote: “We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body; and it is not much otherwise in the mind: you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatesoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confusion.”
Listening ears are one of the best gifts you can give to your spouse or children. Such ears are invariably connected to a kind and patient heart.
Make friends with the four C’s:
Compassion
Caring
Consideration
Comfort
These four traits will never grow old or out of fashion.
A friend is one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
Remember, to have a friend you must be a friend. Whatever you do today, take some time to listen to another who needs to talk a bit. It can make all the difference in the world.
More tomorrow.