Friends...

My best friend, Amber, sent me this quote in a card this past week. :) I love it! It's so true, of true friendship!

'In perfect friendship... each memeber of the circle feels, in his secret heart, humbled before all the rest. Sometimes he/she wonders what he is doing among his betters. He is lucky beyond dessert to be in such company. Especially when the whole group together, each bringing out all that is best, wisest, or funniest in all the others. These are golden sessions...'
~CS Lewis

Love...

Read this today:

"Love does not stop nicely to calculate the less or more; Love does not stop to work out how little it can respectably give. What a kind of divine extravagance, love gives everything it has and never counts the cost. Calculation is never any part of love."

William Barclay in 'The Mind of Jesus'
As quoted in 'Unquenchable Worshiper" by Matt Redman

'Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.'
From I Cor 13
The Message