FRIENDS

People will forget what you said,
and forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.

Lord, Jesus, thank You for the kindness
of strangers and the support of my friends.
Please teach me how to be a good friend in return.

It is when times get tough
that friends matter most.
Your own disciples fell asleep
in your hour of suffering
in the Garden of Olives. They abandoned you, probably out of fear for their own lives,
when you were arrested. We are told that Peter denied his friendship with you three times.

Give me the courage and sensitivity
to be a good friend always and most of all
never to deny or neglect my friendship with You.

All this I pray to you my God, my close, eternal, all-powerful, forgiving Friend.

Amen

 

(c) 2012 Donn B. Murphy