What is life

Life brings much unpredictability

For sure you know it's never static.

The day you expect a sunny day

It pours like cats and dogs.

Some days when you thought

You might catch a bit of rain and chill

Everything just comes up roses.

What is life? The answer is

I'm still learning as much as you are.

But one thing brings a whole lot of difference to the journey.

It is the friends He brings our way.

For without you

I can only hang on for so long

And if not for you and so many other cheerleaders

Who breathe life into me during the race,

I would have given up on that last hurdle.

Without friends

Life could be so empty.

Perhaps then,

life is simply

the friendships that it is made of,

And the friendship we are meant to extend

as in the first days of Eden between God and men.

Thanks so much for being my friend.

"...for he is thy life, and the length of thy days." Deuteronomy 30:20

The above poem is reproduced from the author's 2002 Diary for Today's Men and Women: Reflections of Life.