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A Special Tribute

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Nathan's mom and I took a trip to Amish Country,

Sugar Creek this past weekend, compliments

of my dear husband. He had a Halloween thing

his son, Nathan and him were doing at our house and I

preferred to do something else.

During this overnight trip, we stopped at some

lovely stores and also spent the night at the

Carlisle Inn and was entertained with a concert

"Exile" a band doing songs from the 80's, which

we both really enjoyed!

We explored a lot of the stores around and Nathan's

mom gifted me with this devotional. Nathan and I

were using Joel Osteen's devotional and both felt it

was time for an upgrade so this devotional was

a blessing for sure.

Today's devotional was called

"Friends For The Journey". As most of you

know we recently lost a very dear and close

friend so this one in particular, spoke volumes.

This devotion referred to The Pilgrims Progress, by John Bunyan,

a book I have not yet read that uses allegories to describe the journey.

Bunyan's allegory of the believer's struggle through

life on the way toward heaven poignantly illustrates

the difficult journey we face. But the indispensable

lesson of faith and hope through the Christian's traveling

companions reminds believers of another truth: we need

friends along life's path to pick us up when we fall, encouraging

us to keep on keeping on.

Do you have such a friend? They say(whoever "they" are)that we

are blessed if we have two good friends in life. I'm especially

blessed because I can truly say my husband is my best friend, my

daughter is my best friend and Ruth Ann was my best friend.

"Two are better than one......For if they fall, one will

lift up his companion". Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

"A man of many companions may come to ruin,

but there is one who sticks closer than a brother".

Proverbs 18:24

No burden is too great to carry with the heavenly

promise of our Lord(John 14:1-2)and encouraging

friends who help turn our despair into joy and our doubt into

a stronger faith and hope. Look around your path today.

There is probably someone not to far from you who needs

your encouragement.

*A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down".

Arnold H. Glasgow







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