John 15:12-13
“ My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
In the wonderful book, Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie Swartz is dying from Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was close to losing this ability to speak. His best friend for thirty-five years, Maurie Stein, was going deaf. Morrie was asked, “What is going to happen when the two of you are together and one of you is unable to speak and the other is unable to hear?” And Morrie said, “I guess we’ll just hold hands.” The gift of friendship is priceless. When you care deeply about someone, you do not need words to express love. Sometimes just a gentle touch, a held hand, a warm hug, a listening ear, or a long look in the eye speaks more clearly the word of love than the word itself. Life is really fragile, yet, in the midst of trying to cope and to handle circumstances that threaten to break us, if we have friends, people we can count on, talk to, hold hands with, and pray with, we are truly blessed. Jesus said, “Love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: that a person lay down his life for a friend.” I hope that you have found a friend like that. More importantly, be a friend like that.
“ My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
In the wonderful book, Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie Swartz is dying from Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was close to losing this ability to speak. His best friend for thirty-five years, Maurie Stein, was going deaf. Morrie was asked, “What is going to happen when the two of you are together and one of you is unable to speak and the other is unable to hear?” And Morrie said, “I guess we’ll just hold hands.” The gift of friendship is priceless. When you care deeply about someone, you do not need words to express love. Sometimes just a gentle touch, a held hand, a warm hug, a listening ear, or a long look in the eye speaks more clearly the word of love than the word itself. Life is really fragile, yet, in the midst of trying to cope and to handle circumstances that threaten to break us, if we have friends, people we can count on, talk to, hold hands with, and pray with, we are truly blessed. Jesus said, “Love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: that a person lay down his life for a friend.” I hope that you have found a friend like that. More importantly, be a friend like that.
– Virginia Thompson