Today is Friday, January 2nd, 2004; Karen's Korner #210

This is something that I received a few months ago from Shirley Southard; and probably a year or more ago from Jana Burkheimer. I like it as I think about so many "friends"(I think it is a writing for us 'girls'):


Subject: Get Yourself a Girlfriend!

I sat under a pecan tree in the hot Texas sun on a summer day,
drinking iced tea and getting to know my new sister-in-law, Estelle.

Not much older than I, but already the mother of three, Estelle seemed to me
experienced and wise.

 

"Get yourself some girlfriends," she advised, clinking the ice
cubes in her glass. "You are going to need girlfriends. Go places
with them; do things with them."

 

What a funny piece of advice, I thought. Hadn't I just gotten married?

Hadn't I just joined the couple-world? I was a married woman,

for goodness sake, not a young girl who needed girlfriends.

 

But I listened to this new sister-in-law. I got myself some
girlfriends.

As the years tumbled by, one after another, gradually I came to
understand that Estelle knew what she was talking about.

Here is what I know about them:

 

* Girlfriends bring casseroles and scrub your bathroom when you are
sick.

* Girlfriends keep your children and keep your secrets.

* Girlfriends give advice when you ask for it. Sometimes you take it,
sometimes you don't.

* Girlfriends don't always tell you that you're right, but they're
usually honest.

*Girlfriends still love you, even when they don't agree with your
choices.

 

*Girlfriends might send you a birthday card, but they might not.
It does not matter in the least.

* Girlfriends laugh with you, and you don't need canned jokes to
start the laughter.

 

* Girlfriends pull you out of jams.

 

* Girlfriends don't keep a calendar that lets them know who hosted
the other last.

* Girlfriends are there for you, in an instant and truly, when
the hard times come.

* Girlfriends listen when you lose a job or a husband.

* Girlfriends listen when your children break your heart.

*Girlfriends listen when your parents' minds and bodies fail.

My girlfriends bless my life.

Once we were young, with no idea of the incredible joys or the
icredible sorrows that lay ahead. Nor did we know how much we
would need each other.

 

Pass this on to a girlfirned or two; remember that relatives can be girlfriends,
too! Let them know how much you appreciate them.

 

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