There’s a lot a person can be thankful for. My family is very lucky in so many ways. We are healthy for the most part and we are able to pay our bills. At the end of the day that’s what’s really important.
I’ve been thinking a lot about that first Thanksgiving meal. The pilgrims were not doing to good in the “new world,” and if it wouldn’t have been for the native Americans or “Indians” as one lost sailor labeled them, the pilgrims would have probably starved. Friendships, that what made the first Thanksgiving happen.
Over the years it seems some friends that come and go. It’s been my experience there are only a few friendships that stand the test of time. Proverbs 18:24 says, “A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”
I’ve got just a couple of friends that I know I can count on when I really need something. My assortment of friends includes a man about my age that was appointed by a president to a job very high up in the federal government. He has a couple of college degrees and meets with some of the most powerful people on the planet.
I’ve also got a very close friend that shoes horses for a living. These two men are as far apart as can be when it comes to their daily lives, but if I call and tell either one of them, hey man I need some help with this or that they will drop what they are doing and help anyway they can.
This Thanksgiving I’m especially thankful for those few friends that I know I can count on. This year I’ve needed help with everything from hay baling to getting family members to doctor’s appointments. Life throws us all a curveball now and then. I don’t know what I’d do without those few endearing friendships.
Shakespeare said it best, “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother.”
This Thanksgiving I honor my friends, some of whom have been there through thick and thin with me.
James Lockhart lives near the Kiamichi mountains in southeast Oklahoma. He writes cowboy stories and fools with cows and horses.
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