What do we do when our friends around us are struggling? Do we hide, avoid or ignore them? Sometimes - when we are in the midst of a storm in our lives, it seems like people whom we believed were our strongest friends disapear. I have learned from experience that this isn't exactly true. Sometimes it is our perception that they have disappeared. They haven't actually. Now this fact compells me to examine my own behavior when I have friends around me struggling! Do I want them to think I have abandoned them? NO! I can't over impose myself and try and solve their problem - but I can make myself available - to listen, help and care for them in their time of need.

 I care very deeply from my close friends and want to help them - especially if I can share something that I've learned in a season of my life. Seems to me, I've just emereged from a very dark season in my life and I am experiencing a new vigor for life - and life as a believer. I am ever certain of who I am in Christ & of His unconditional, never ending love for me. Every storm of my past has made me into the person I am today - more confident and aware of who I am now!