How do you pick your friends?

Tonight I went to Walgreens and met up with a former co- worker.

I asked June if she wanted to meet a the diner.

Deneen and I went and met up with her and had a bite.

June is usually down in the mouth about most things.

I love her to death. She is in her early sixties and

has a rough life that never seems to get easier.

Most of the problems are wrong choices

that will haunt her the rest of her life.

But even with her rough edges

I see the beauty in her and would do anything for her.

She has raised her children on her own,

and have raised her grandchildren on her own.

This past week she lost her former husband to cancer.

they might not have been married and able to live together

but they still had a friendship and three children together.

After we left her on the way home Neen said

we have to find you some happy friends.

God has put these people in my path for a reason.

Maybe I am the only optimistic person in their lives.

I always enjoy the company of all my various friends.

I do have a couple of upbeat friends.

God made this way to uplift and be the listening ear

for many of my friends.

I thank God for each and every one of them.

A true friend is there through thick and thin.