Have you ever found a friend
That makes your heart glow
Someone who is wonderful
You feel honored to know

Someone to laugh with perhaps even to cry
Someone whom you love no matter what they do
Someone who looks up to you when you don't know why
Someone who just seems to understand you

Someone that you think of day and night
Someone you pray for as you go to bed
Someone who shows up when the time is just right
Thoughts of them are always in your head

Someone who shares with you all your ups and downs
Someone who appears when ever there is a need
Someone you share smiles with replacing all your frowns
Surely you must know, God planted that seed

These seeds God has planted here on earth
Were planted deeply in our friend's heart
They cannot be measured by earthly worth
Only by God's values placed here from the start

Value those friendships, honor their decisions
Respect their feelings, never make demands
Never try to make their dreams your revisions
Hold their love tightly in your hands

Never get angry if you don't talk to them each day
Trust in friendship, send them a piece of your heart
For a heart can still feel loved even tho it's far away
This is how God intended love to be from the start

Place their memory in your heart and mind
See them for what they really are
Continue to love them no matter the time
Friends are Angels Sent By God from afar

Author Unknown
Painting By: Dona Gelsinger