Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you.”
Do you have a forever friend?
Piglet and Poo more than likely consider each other a forever-friend.
What exactly is a forever friend--
“When we honestly ask ourselves
which person in our lives mean the most to us,
we often find that it is those who,
instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures,
have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds
with a warm and tender hand.
The friend who can be silent with us
in a moment of despair or confusion,
who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement,
who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing
and face with us the reality of our powerlessness,
I'd also like to add that a forever friend is one that you can laugh with until the tears fall....
A forever friend accepts you the way you are without trying to change you into someone you are not...
A forever friend will drop everything she is doing in your time of crisis and be there for you...
A forever friend loves you no matter how bad you look, how disheveled your life may be...
Plus, a forever friend
lasts a lifetime.
She will not give up on you.
Even if she is miles away....
Her spirit is with you.
Whether you have a forever friend or not....
Whether you have more than one forever friend....
lucky girl, you....or not...
There is someone else who will be your forever friend....
JESUS...
a forever friend...
with an eye on eternity.
Repeating Nouwen's words from "Out of Solitude"... it is those who...have chosen to share our pain and touch our wounds.... The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement.... and face with us the reality of our powerlessness... that is a friend who cares."
That is Jesus.
No longer do I call you servants,
for the servant does not know what his master is doing;
but I have called you friends,
for all that I have heard from my Father
I have made known to you.
“We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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