Friendships

Friendships are as crucial for a well-balanced, healthy, happy life as food is for sustaining life. Alan Loy McGinnis’ The Friendship Factor highlights the crucial role friends play in our overall health. He suggests that if everyone had at least one close friend, we would see a considerable drop in assorted mental health challenges. Friendships are essential to feeling satisfied with life. Friends provide company, consolation, encouragement, and even healthy challenges at times. The first friend I […]

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Happy Birthday, Chris

“Trust in the Lord, and do good; so you will dwell in the land, and enjoy security.” (Psalm  37:3) I frequently tell my friend, Chris Metzger, that I want to be just like her when I grow up. Many of us here in Houston have spent a considerable portion of September celebrating her 100th birthday with her. It started when we sang happy birthday to her at water aerobics at the YMCA. Our leader said […]

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What’s for Dinner?

This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them. (Luke 15: 2b) Who eats dinner with you? If dine alone, are you keeping company with a favorite TV personality? Are you dining in a public place surrounded by strangers? Jesus was criticized because of the company he chose for dinner companions. We may not always have a choice about who we eat dinner with, but the people with whom we share dinner is as important to […]

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