Proverbs 18:24

Good afternoon everyone! I pray that you are having a wonderful New Year. We ended 2016 with family being home that's not been home in almost 3 yrs and it was wonderful!!!! I'll not go into that here if you want to catch up with my family you are more than welcome to go to my family blog: http://7isheavenforus.blogspot.com I'll be updating that later today :)

Today here however is about friends. I've noticed through the past year there's been a lot people who've lost friends due to cancer, car accidents, basic health issues, even unexpectedly. As the new year approached I the verse which I've mentioned in the Post title kept coming to mind. Now, I'll not do this here but on my Face book page Paula Seavey, I decided that on Monday through Fridays I'm going to honor a friend each day. This friend maybe family or non related but I want to always be a friend and I want to always be that friend you can come to. As the Lord allows me to, I want to be a blessing or help to those who ask or need. Proverbs 18:24 says, "A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly; and their is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother."

See if you don't personally know me, I'm naturally shy. It is NOT my nature to just walk up and talk to people, to be friend them, to make myself readily available. However I make myself be that friend. Just as the Lord is closer to me than a friend or brother, my prayer is that I am considered a close friend. I've not had anyone tell me, you are a fake, or you don't really mean what you say. I have however seen that happen to dear people. To people who only want to be a blessing, who they just simply want to be a help. My friend, if you have a Jennie, a Margaret, a Mrs. Caroline, a Tammy in your life don't push them away. Let them be the friend of Proverbs 18:24. None of us are perfect and all of us will make mistakes, so as a FRIENDLY reminder from a friend, shew yourself friend, be that friend who is there when a brother isn't.

You say, Mrs. Paula, "I'm shy!" Well, my friend so am I! You just have to step out of your comfort zone and make yourself friendly.

Have a wonderful 2017!!