Friend

2015-07-01

[quote style=”boxed”]I find Kim’s words about friendship, excerpted from a sermon of hers we printed in the February 2011 Quest, very helpful as a roadmap to a meaningful life. My friends as chosen family and my family as chosen friends. —LD [/quote]

Friend: the one who sees the beauty,
even in the brokenness,
and reflects that to us, like a mirror.
Friend: devotion.
Friend: the one who comes and sits
and remains with us,
even in the face of terrible brokenness,
and helps us to bear it.
Friend: the one who makes the world
a little safer,
the one who carries us when we can’t,
the one who makes us smile.
Friend: to look on all people
as all our relations:
to forgive,
to bear hope,
and to work together
for a world at peace,
a world in love.