Connections

We are, if we are very lucky in life, to have a group of people with whom we have forged tight bonds and friendships.    These bonds - connections - are forged through shared experiences, similarities, and affection.  Trust is earned, and these people have earned our trust.  They know your dirt - and they still like you.  

We are fortunate to have these people as support systems, to help us navigate through the mine field of life.  We call upon them in troubling times to listen, offer advice, to laugh with or to shoot straight from the hip with the "what were you thinking!".    Those of us fortunate enough to have such people in our life, cannot fathom life without them.   

I have many acquaintances in life, but a very VERY tight circle of friends with whom I have this trust, connection.    They are my tribe.   Each has a significant role in my life; each brings with them their own particular strength and wisdom which I need in my life to help me through whatever trials or tribulations I may be experiencing.   

These connections are precious.   They need nurturing; they need tending as much as a farmer tends his crops.   Sporadic contact will not feed these connections; they will starve and fall dead to us.  We must also assume that even the closely tended friendships evolve and change throughout the different stages of life each of us goes through.  I firmly believe that people are brought in to lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.   Some may leave us because their reason or season has served their purpose.   It is the way of life - perpetual change.   But oh, those that stick with us, see us through the muck, day in- day out, they are the lifers...the lifetime friends that you hold on to with both hands and never let go of....no matter what.

You came in to my life when I was searching for my soul,

my darkest hours had me shaken to the core.

Your gentleness, your kindness reaffirmed in me

everything I was, everything I believed,

was something to be treasured,

a me, proud to be.

Your faith in me, your trust

was all I needed to see,

that in you, in us,

our friendship was to be.

A reason, a season,

a lifetime will it be?  

The answer remains to be seen,

You see....it makes no difference,

you're a friend

to me.
~Sherry~
April 15, 2018