If there is one ingredient           
which adds warmth and love           
to our lives...                      
it is Friendship.                    

If there is one relationship to      
help us through all the others...    
it is Friendship.                    

Friends surround us with             
the beauty of their caring.          
With friends we can share            
what we see, what we feel            
and what we love.                    

Friends help us with our problems    
because they listen.                 
And as they listen                   
we begin to hear the language of     
our own hearts.                      

With friends we can                  
walk along the remembered            
paths of our lives and               
completely share our experiences.    

With friends we can work             
the soil of forgotten dreams         
that needed to be tended and         
nurtured once again.                 

With friends we can                  
plant the seed                       
of our hearts                        
new dreams.                          

We can always return to a friend     
like going back to a special place.. 
and find the same warm feeling       
unchanged by time or distance.       

Life gives us friends                
so we can share the precious times   
and memorable moments of             
being children, and teenagers,       
and adults, and parents,             
and grandparents.                    

Life gives us friends                
so we can share                      
the growing up...                    
and growing down                     
and old.                             

With friends we have a place to go   
to be accepted and understood.       
Together we can laugh.               
Together we can cry.                 
Our thoughts are heard,              
our feelings are held                
in the heart of a friend.            

With friends our lives are made      
more full, more rich, more open,     
beautiful and blessed !