A friend sent this poem to me.  I found it especially precious in the midst of some major changes and trials I have been walking through recently. 

Hello everyone! 

I am sure some of you thought I was NEVER EVER going to post on here again.  Or maybe you just thought I died and you weren't notified.  Well, neither is true, I've just been super busy with life in general and work in particular.  I have started to post many times and then put it aside as I had something else that HAD to be done and the post fell lower on the priority list so it got cut.  No workaholic comments, please!

Anyway, I found this "Paralegal's Night Before Christmas" as I was reading one of my legal magazines.  I thought it was hilarious.  I hope you do too. 

http://txpd.org/tpj/54/etal02.asp

What do the two words "best friends" conjure up in your mind?  Pleasant memories, unpleasant ones, or a mix of both? 

Ever since I was young, I never liked the term "best friends."  For the simple reason, that people only seemed to have one.  You were either someone's best friend or you were just a friend.  And you NEVER wanted to be relegated to the latter status.  I remember vividly hating the competition, snubbing, etc. that went on with the girls I knew.  So I decided that my Abba Father would be my best friend and everyone else would just be friends.  This sounds wonderful, but I think it was partly decided because i knew God wouldn't let me down, and partly as a defense mechanism to avoid getting too close to others and getting hurt. 

Now my perspective is somewhat different.  I have the benefit of being older, and hopefully a little wiser.  I have the privilege of knowing many great people that I call friend.  Some I know well, others I know more casually, but all of them are dear to me, as all of them are unique. 

I recently heard a comment made about one of the victims of the  tragedy at  Virginia Tech that put this thought in words perfectly.  "...whenever anyone was with her, she made them feel like they were her best friend, that they were the most important person..."  And I thought, yes, that is exactly what I want others to say of me, that I treat everyone as if they are the most important person.  For our Lord does the same.  He is no respecter of one person over the other.  He loves us all. 

So are we best friends?  Yes, of course!