Best Friends

I just visited the blog of one of my dearest friends and was so overcome with emotion (due to a rather sudden increase of hormones) that I had to post. I think that every blogger who visits this page will be able to relate.

There is always a time in your life when things just kind of stink. You're just walking along, whistling a little tune, when out of no where you stub your toe on a little rock, scrape your knee and fall headlong into the mucky business of living. It's happened to all of us, and so it happened to me almost a decade ago. The pain was acute, and sometimes I still feel it. But, just when I thought all hope was lost, enter three beautiful women with a tree trunk to pull me out.

Never could a girl ask for truer, more devoted friends then these three. Never. I love them like they're part of me, and so they are. We have our own lives now, and I rarely see them. But when we get together, it's as if we were never apart. These women are completely different from one another, each having strong characteristics that set them apart. And at the moment I thought hope was gone, they swooped in and saved me--each of them in her own way. I would be living a life quite different than the one I have now if they had not intervened. I never would have married my husband, rediscovered my sense of humor or been inspired to write again without them.

And now, they are still incredible and I look up to them more than they can ever know. They are superb mothers, resilient in the face of sorrow and strife. They are loving wives, who show by example what it means for two hearts to be one. They are determined and intelligent, influencing the lives around them through stories, charitable work and support. They are faithful and show me what it is to be a daughter of God. Don't ask me their faults, they are greatly outweighed by virtue.

I can only hope that you, dear readers, have friends like that. Forgive my narrative, but it had to be told. I have other friends, who are just as appreciated, but these three will always have a special corner of my heart.