Look What I Got

Look What I Got

If you’re not seeing this on my website the answer to that statement isn’t self evident. I got a book Spell Of Shadow And Light by Melinda Kucsera.

I don’t bring this up to gush about a fantastic story however. B - I haven’t read it yet and it would be disingenuous for me to tell you hoe great it was before I completed it (though I have read some of the stories in it) and A - I’m just a little biased given my friendship with the author.

No it’s that friendship and what it means to me that I’m talking about today.

For me friendship and friend are verbs not nouns. They are things we do, actions we take and manners of operation like being a Christian, Doctor, or Mother.

Friend is not a measure of time or proximity but a measure of investment and intent.

Mel has been a fantastic friend to me for as long as I have known her and is the reason I have anything approaching a writing career now. I owe her my dreams.

It is easy, it seems, for people to pay lip-service to friendship. To say they would “do anything” for their friend but when they’re asked to do those thing s suddenly it’s inconvenient. It’s too expensive to buy a $4 bar of soap or aim a stranger at a coffee shop. Or even, just, to pick up the phone at a strange hour of the day.

But these supportive actions are the most important things you can do. They say we can die from a thousand cuts. We live thanks to a thousand smiles as well.

Mel will see this blog, this picture and I will add one to those thousand smiles and my life will be enriched for it. As will my library from what is undoubtedly a good book,

So let me close with this. Ask yourself what you are doing to add to your friend’s thousand smiles?

Do what you can, support them. Make friendship a verb that brings prosperity to those in your life.

Thank you and God bless;

~S. Wallace