Did You Miss This New Holiday?

Friendship does the heavy lifting of happiness in our lives, so I’d say it deserves better. Time is critical, vulnerability is essential, but maybe something else we should remember is gratitude. Hug a friend today. We don’t celebrate our friendships enough.

Eric Barker, Plays Well with Others

Did you know yesterday was Friend Day?

It didn’t show up on your smartphone’s calendar. You can’t find a Hallmark card celebrating it. Your friends didn’t remember to give you a gift.

Don’t be too hard on your friends (or yourself).

The reason you didn’t know yesterday was Friend Day is because I just made it up.

But we should have a special day to celebrate friendship.

Other relationships are important. But ancient Hebrew wisdom tells us there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

We don’t get to choose our siblings or even get to decide if we have any.

But we select our friends.

There is another selection process operating with friends. You could call it “survival of the stickiest.”

When difficult times come, some of our friends don’t come. They don’t show up. They aren’t very sticky.

But thank God for the friends who do stick by us.

They are the ones we can call in the middle of the night.