ღ Friends ღ 
  
People always come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. 
When you figure out which it is, you know exactly what to do. 
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When someone is in your life for a REASON, 
it is usually to meet a need you have expressed outwardly or inwardly. 
They have come to assist you through a difficulty, 
or to provide you with guidance and support, 
to aid you physically, emotionally, or even spiritually. 
They may seem like a godsend to you, and they are. 
They are there for the reason you need them to be. 
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Then, without any wrong doing on your part or at an inconvenient time, 
this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. 
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Sometimes they die. Sometimes they just walk away. 
Sometimes they act up or out and force you to take a stand. 
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled; their work is done. 
The prayer you sent up has been answered and it is now time to move on. 
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When people come into your life for a SEASON, 
 it is because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. 
They may bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. 
They may teach you something you have never done. 
They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. 
Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season. 
And like Spring turns to Summer and Summer to Fall,  
the season eventually ends. 
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 LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; 
those things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. 
Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person/people (anyway); 
and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas in your life.
  It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant 
© BRIAN ANDREW "DREW" CHALKER 
ღ Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget ღ 
  
  
ღ  Everyone Needs Someone ღ 
  
   People need people and friends need friends 
And we all need love for a full life depends 
Not on vast riches or great acclaim, 
Not on success or on worldy fame, 
But just in knowing that someone cares 
And holds us close in their thoughts and prayers- 
For only the knowledge that we're understood 
Makes everyday living feel wonderfully good, 
And we rob ourselves of life's greatest need 
When we "lock up our hearts" and fail to heed 
The outstretched hand reaching to find 
A kindred spirit whose heart and mind 
Are lonely and longing to somehow share 
Our joys and sorrows and to make us aware 
That life's completeness and richness depends 
On the things we share with our loved ones 
and friends. 

by Helen Steiner Rice 
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