You've Got a Friend

When you're down and troubled

and you need a helping hand

and nothing, oh nothing is going right

close your eyes and think of me

and soon I will be there

to brighten up even your darkest night

You just call out my name

and you know wherever I am

I'll come running, to see you again

Winter, spring, summer or fall

all you got to do is call

and I"ll be there , you,ve got a friend.

If the sky about you

should turn dark and full of clouds

and that old North wind should begin to blow

keep your head together

and call my name out loud

soon I'll be knocking at your door.

and you know wherever I am

I"ll come running to see you again

People can be so cold

they'll hurt you and desert you

they'll even take your soul if you let them

But all you have to do is call out my name

and you know wherever I am

I'll come running to see you again

Forty years ago oh, I loved dancing to this song. Seemed like the world had all I needed and this promise also. I smiled. But then reality came a short time later. The glamour and security of it all was all gone. I was still young. In my 40s. Two children in college, one in high school and a 1st grader. I started over. Where were all those friends?

I have learned real friends are few and far between. The many I thought would be there had disappeared. The American dream come true young couple had each went their separate ways.

What have I learned? That some people come through your life when you seem to have it all and they enjoy you. They seem to come for a season.

Then as life goes on the universe sends special people at special times who speak to your heart and soul. They care and you hear it in their words.You see it in their eyes if they do not speak a word. Many thoughts go through my mind today and I am so thankful for my life at this time. I'm thankful for the special people who are too numerous to mention by name that have touched my life, one in particular this week with whom I had a brief conversation that left tears in my eyes. A truly good person. Good to the core of his being. I cannot begin to name my blessings.