The good things in life
This last weekend a group of friends my husband and I hang out with went on a camping trip. We had been planning this event for over a month. The date was figured out, the campsite secured, food assignments were handed out and the weather cooperated.
After dinner we gathered in a circle with all the kids to sing songs and hear stories. At one point I got up and walked to the back of the group and watched. "Life is good," I thought. Everyone in our group has had some trouble or other over the years. Some have had more problems than others, but here we were, all together, in a great big circle of support. We like being together.
In recent weeks as I have dealt with the loss of a friendship, I look to this group and feel an overwhelming gratitude for their friendship. To say that I love them doesn't quite speak to the warmth and total acceptance I feel from them.
After dinner we gathered in a circle with all the kids to sing songs and hear stories. At one point I got up and walked to the back of the group and watched. "Life is good," I thought. Everyone in our group has had some trouble or other over the years. Some have had more problems than others, but here we were, all together, in a great big circle of support. We like being together.
In recent weeks as I have dealt with the loss of a friendship, I look to this group and feel an overwhelming gratitude for their friendship. To say that I love them doesn't quite speak to the warmth and total acceptance I feel from them.
“If we learn to appreciate more of what we already have, we will find ourselves having more to appreciate.”
—Michael Angier
Life is good!
Labels: About me, Friendship
posted by Kelly @ 7/01/2007 11:02:00 AM
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11 Comments:
Awww...we luff ya too, Kelly.
Now I feel all sniffly and stuff! :)
:)
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Hell, Kelly, I like you and I have never met you in person. Let me recall some of the things that makes Kelly special:
1. you care about you and yours
2. you are who you are
3. you are honest
4. you speak what you believe and you believe what you speak
I can never ask another human being to be more than those things.
Many have gone to their deaths without half of that, my dear.
life is good, kelly. sometimes we need to draw on what attracts us to one another rather than our differences.
our trip to cali was okay, but it sure was good to get home.
happy fourth to you and your family.
I think that all of you have shown that the quote I included in this entry is so true.
“If we learn to appreciate more of what we already have, we will find ourselves having more to appreciate.”
James, I am almost at a loss for words...as I have said before, even though we have never met in person, I feel that you are a friend. :)
Nanc, I feel that it is indeed the things that are in common that brings us together. It is our differences, however, that make us unique. There are many people out there in the blogosphere and very few who remain in my heart.
It is those differences that endear them to me. I consider you a friend, as well.
Kelly,
Yes. We are friends. Mayhap someday I can meet you and your noble husband.
You never know what the Maker has in store for us.
PS. Look for my email
James,
:)
Kelly, it is indeed, THEIR loss, the friend you speak of that has chosen to go south. They obviously did not know you and love you the way, not only I do, but all the lucky people who call you their friend. THEIR loss, indeed. xoxoxoxo
~~Starla
Starla,
:) Thanks for the warmth from you, as well. It is good to have friends, however far away they may be. xoxoxoxox
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