Is it 2010 already?/Friends

Wow - time flies when you don't post...at all! :)

I'm going to try this blogging thing again. Maybe I'll get 10 before the year is over!

I've decided to let this blog be however it is to be, discussing which ever topic I feel led to.

Today, I'm thinking about friends (not to be confused with Friends, the university from which I obtained my Master's degree or the popular sitcom that ran on NBC from 1994-2004).

Friends come in many shapes and sizes, and from many walks of life. Some friends you see every (or almost every) day; some once in a blue moon (which just happened last month, Dec. 31, 2009). Regardless, I am amazed a the number of people I can call my "friend."

Friends can be a relative (my wife is my best friend), a schoolmate (Caleb & Family, Dustin), an "adopted relative" (the Easts), someone who used to be the friend of a friend (my co-worker, Jacob), and so on.

Friends have no qualifiers. I have friends with whom I could (note the word "could") get into a knockdown, drag-out fight with because we don't agree on everything, especially the "important things." It wouldn't be worth it.

A number of years ago I told someone, "God didn't put me down here to make enemies," and that's how I still feel. It's odd to talk about a loving God, and being one of His followers, and express hatred toward others.

I thank God for my friends...