A PERSONAL PRAYER

God,

Today I thank you for my friends.

I thank you for those friends to whom I talk often, and those I seldom see.

I thank you for new friendships that keep life dynamic, and old friends, with whom I have shared so much.

I thank you for the friends with whom I have lost touch, grateful for the time we shared together, and for friends in which a renewed relationship is a resurrection, remembering what brought us together in the first place.

I thank you for the friends for whom friendship was easy and comfortable, and for those friends for whom friendship was hard and draining.

I thank you for the friends who have passed on to be with you in the church triumphant, and for the friends you will put in my path in the days ahead.

I thank you for the friends whose names I can’t remember but with whom I enjoyed life in the days gone by.

I thank you for the friendships built on laughter alone, and especially for the friendships that have supported me in tears and hard times.

Most of all, I thank you for the friends who shared with me your love, and introduced me to your son, the friend who is with me in every time, place, and moment.

It is in the name of my friend, Jesus, I pray. Amen.