Relationships

I don't really know how I have kept and cultivated the relationships that I have but I do know I have some really great ones. It is funny too, because right now I am not really in close contact with them, they all live other places, some closer others far away. It does not matter though because when we do get to talk and visit, it always seems like time has not passed at all. We just immediately pick up where we each are at. I guess I would have to say the one thing that keeps these relationships as they are is that it is mutual. The friends I have value the relationship as much as I do, therefore we both put an effort into it. It is always a two way street, one street has to meet the other.
I can not put a value on my friends and the relationship I have with them. I thank God for them and for putting them in my life. Some have been with me over 15 or more years, some not so long and some just a few years but it does not change the value. Sometimes I wonder why they continue to be a friend but they stick with me through thick and thin. I thank them for that.
I think that is all, now I will just sit and think over the great memories my friends and I have had and for the ones to come.

Communication

Communication is such an important quality to have and achieve. Achieving communication is a work in progress kind of thing, something one has to work on everyday to be a success. It is a risk too to put yourself out there, creating the communication that is needed at times. One thing that is most important about communicating is that one has to listen and hear. Just think if we were all better communicators, there would be less misunderstandings, mutual agreements to disagree, and better relationships as a result. Even our communication with the Father in Heaven could be improved upon. So, next time your in conversation be aware of what your communicating and listening, and hearing.

I have not really gotten into the whole blog thing, but since I have a computer at my home now, I will give it a try. I love to read others blogs and find out what is up with the people that I am close to or friends with. Some people think that is nosy but why do people put stuff on blogs if they do not want people to read them. If you don't want people to read them don't make a blog!
I just love to keep up with people that I know and care about. This has been a way that I can find to do that. Technology has made all of this a possibility and we can somehow feel like it has taken away our ability to be close to someone. I think it makes me closer to the people I care about because I am reading about their life, because I do care.
Maybe if more of us looked at the technology as a blessing then maybe we could put aside some of the differences and risk ourselves with people and truly come away with some fantastic friends, family and relationships.