from God’s Little Devotional Journal for Women –Honor Books, Tulsa Oklahoma, pg. 173
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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.