Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wrong I was! Hearing a knock on my door, I peered out into the hallway, wondering where the knocker had gone. On the floor in front of my door was a small cloth-bound book. Inside were notes from most of my friends, letters of friendship and love, reminding me of all that I've been blessed with. They all told me to listen to my own advice, to wait, to wonder in all that I saw and to trust that in time God's plan for me would reveal itself...
They told me about love, about faith, about the glory of true friendship. I realized what great happiness I have been blessed with. It was truly the happiest Valentine's Day of my life. And it had been there all along. I had only to close my mouth and open my eyes...
...favorite author, C.S. Lewis, wrote a book entitled "The Four Loves" where he explains the four-tiered Greek definition of love, from storge (affection) to philia (friendship) to eros (love, can be sexual) and agape (loving friendship and sacrifice without limitation or prerequisite). Much like recruiting can make us forget what careers might make us truly happy, the search for eros can obscure the agape that many of us are already blessed with from our friends and, if we're lucky, our family. Draw on this love of your friends and ask them to help you in your search...
...wrong I was! Hearing a knock on my door, I peered out into the hallway, wondering where the knocker had gone. On the floor in front of my door was a small cloth-bound book. Inside were notes from most of my friends, letters of friendship and love, reminding me of all that I've been blessed with. They all told me to listen to my own advice, to wait, to wonder in all that I saw and to trust that in time God's plan for me would reveal itself...
Optimistic Horace graces this venerable passageway. Translation: "Thrice happy and more are they whom an unbroken band unites, and whom no sundering of love by wretched quarrels shall separated before life's dying day" (Odes: 1.13). In short, friendship is good for the soul...