Friend: someone that cares about you , and shows you in word and deed. A person that will reach out to comfort, help, and sustain you …That will enjoy your achievements, and encourage you….Someone that you can call anytime and they are there for you…
I have had many phone calls, emails from people that I am pleased to call friends…I thank each and every one that has encouraged me and lifted us all up in prayer…
I have a poem to share with you all from one of my friends…
Kay, I wanted to share this poem with you. ……..Gone From My Sight
by Henry Van Dyke.
I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship, at my side, spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.
Then, someone at my side says, “There, she is gone.”
Gone where?
Gone from my sight. That is all.
She is just as large in mast, hull and spar as she was when she left my side.
And she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me–not in her.
And, just at the moment when someone says, “There, she is gone,” there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout,
“Here she comes!” And that is dying……
