Yesterday, I was doing laundry when the machine started freaking out. The load was off balance and the machine was banging against the wall and dancing in an agitated manner, its feet hammering the floor. I ran in and quickly shut it off, then waited for it to stop its spinning. After rearranging the load, I started it up again. As the machine started it's spin cycle again, this time calmly, I noticed that my hands were holding the sides of the machine in a comforting action and the thought that came to mind was, "That's just like a good friend.While you freak out she will hold you and be there to comfort you. She may help you shut out your world for a bit so that you can readjust and refocus but she will stay with you until you are running calmly again."

I appreciate Pastor Chris Martin's current focus on friendships. Friends are so very important in life. In this age of cell phoning upstairs to ask you son to bring down your slippers, e mailing your grandmother with an e card for Christmas,  doing a days worth of chores without ever touching a foot to the ground outside the garage, talking to 3D people around you is becoming a rare sport. Everyone is so busy being busy that we can live in a cocoon of lonliness and not even be aware of it.

Here are some scissors,Sis, let me help you get out of that cocoon.

If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. Ecclesiastes 4:10