I have lots of catching up to do, in sharing with my friends how my days this week have been going, and in letting you all know that I am here reading your journals by getting in there and saying so. But it's Verse Thursday, and I want to share a little something about friendship that was printed in the birthday card I received from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lyria_theringer:
That is why I am here with you, my friends, that my joy may be doubled in sharing my happiness and experiencing yours, and that my own sorrow might be diminished, as you help me carry the burden of it -- and that I might help your sorrow to seem less weighty, as you share it with me.
Speaking of good friends and birthdays, my very best friend -- the one to whom I have been married for 25 years come August 1 -- is having a birthday today. Happy Birthday, Dear Hubby! We don't have a big plan for the day, other than me making a carrot cake (DH's favorite because it can support a ton of frosting, hee!), but knowing my birthday boy, he'll come up with something on a whim, and then we'll go do that. As long as it doesn't involve bike riding AND walking for miles and miles, I should be okay. ;-)
Thinking of you all today, and praying that it is a day of double joy and diminished sorrow!
lyria_theringer:"Surely our lives wouldn't be nearly as happy
without the joy we feel in giving and receiving friendship...
Friendship has its beginning within our own hearts --
we feel something very happy, or perhaps something very sad
and we want to share it.
Soon we discover that sharing our happiness means doubling our joy,
and sharing our sadness means diminishing our sorrow.
We have given this part of ourselves to another,
and we receive a wonderful treasure in return --
the gift of friendship."
without the joy we feel in giving and receiving friendship...
Friendship has its beginning within our own hearts --
we feel something very happy, or perhaps something very sad
and we want to share it.
Soon we discover that sharing our happiness means doubling our joy,
and sharing our sadness means diminishing our sorrow.
We have given this part of ourselves to another,
and we receive a wonderful treasure in return --
the gift of friendship."
That is why I am here with you, my friends, that my joy may be doubled in sharing my happiness and experiencing yours, and that my own sorrow might be diminished, as you help me carry the burden of it -- and that I might help your sorrow to seem less weighty, as you share it with me.
Speaking of good friends and birthdays, my very best friend -- the one to whom I have been married for 25 years come August 1 -- is having a birthday today. Happy Birthday, Dear Hubby! We don't have a big plan for the day, other than me making a carrot cake (DH's favorite because it can support a ton of frosting, hee!), but knowing my birthday boy, he'll come up with something on a whim, and then we'll go do that. As long as it doesn't involve bike riding AND walking for miles and miles, I should be okay. ;-)
Thinking of you all today, and praying that it is a day of double joy and diminished sorrow!
