Stay Connected

Hang Onto Friendships

Stay connected to friends by getting together often with them or by social media. I enjoy talking to friends on the telephone and asking them how they and their families are. It is lovely to have lifelong and trusted friends in your life. Remember, you have to be a friend to have a friend. If a friend is always there for you, you should be there for them. Many storms in our lives and our friends will make the stormy days tolerable. Friends bring out the sunshine in our lives and help build us up when we feel down. Good friends are hard to come by. Such nurture and grow your friendships. , As the old saying goes, friends are the flowers in the garden of life. We have to water our garden to make the flowers grow, and we have to love and be there for our friends to strengthen our friendships. Be the kind of friend that you want to attract. Be outgoing, caring, compassionate, and style to your friends. Don’t be afraid to go out of your way now and then to make your friends happy. Grow and genuinely appreciate all of your friends in your life.

Connected To God

I stay connected to God through my friendships with like-minded people. I listen to 3 church services on Sunday on Facebook, read daily devotions, read the Bible, and am a lay minister at my church. I visit with people at assisted living centers and people at Rest Homes. I enjoy talking to and reaching out to the elderly. I learn significantly from them, and they genuinely appreciate my friendship. I pray to God to help my friends and family who need God’s healing touch. I go to church services on vacation and like hearing the minister’s sermons. I thank God every night for the many blessings he has bestowed upon me. I thank him for friends and family, both near and far, who have supported me through life challenges. I ask God to support, heal and help my suffering family or friends to take their pain away and make them well again.

Attachments

We stay connected to attachments. Attachment is an affection or fondness for someone or something. We form attachments to people, animals, and places we have been. We are loyal, close, and devoted to our attachments. We may be attached to the home we grew up in or some favorite toy we had as a child. We are connected to God as he is our savior and our redeemer. God is always there for me. Even on my darkest days, he can bring out the sunshine in me. We will have attachments to God, things, and people and must put them in perspective. Your attachment to God should be at the top of your list, for without God, you will always be adrift in the sea of life. God is your anchor and your lighthouse in life.