COMFORT IN PAIN

[MIRIAM JACOB]

"When friends help the most, they silently pick up our tears and hold them for us."


A Tear Fell
by Marge Tindal

I shed a tear today
Silently, I felt it fall
...You caught it
shared it
held it
felt it
then
suddenly
it wasn't
so big
after all


"A poem for a friend, far away. To show she's not alone."


"Holding you in my heart and praying for God to give you the strength to hold on until the pain passes." © MIRIAM JACOB


The Gift Of Friends
by Karin Schaefer

There are days when
bubbling from us comes
the innocent child within,
who giggles at the little things
and wears a silly grin.

There are days when
melancholy comes to
visit for a while;
the mind feels tired, the body weak;
we have no strength to smile.

There are days when
joy abundant
grabs a hold of you and me;
wraps us up in all it's splendor,
lifts us up and sets us free.

There are days when
sorrow wraps us
in its cloak of grief and fear,
'till our hearts ache to the breaking,
'till our eyes can't shed a tear.

There are days when
love bestows us
with its wonderment and light;
with its beauty and its mystery,
its power and its might.

And there are days when
life rewards us
and seems to make amends
by granting us a marvelous gift,
the precious gift of Friends.


(source:http://www.netpoets.com/poems/friends/)