COMMUNITY
Buckhorn News
By ETHEL SKIPPERSomeone asked me a question about friendship. We don’t talk of friendship these days. Most people are so busy, they don’t need friends.
The truth is they don’t have time for friends. I want to share this with you about true friendship: A friend loveth at all times, even when the world forsakes you.
A friend will gladly suffer privation and want in any way possible to bring you comfort, and do all he or she can for your happiness without expecting to receive anything back.
A friend will penetrate the raging, fiery flames, will go around and endure untold hardship, pain and suffering. Friendship lives in the heart, grows in the mind, travels in speech.
Friendship is the surety of peace, the seal of love.
Proverbs 18:24 “A man who has friends must himself be friendly, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”
A friend loveth at all times, and a true friend will do you no wrong. As Christians, we have the greater friend, who is Jesus Christ our Father. Let us abide in Him and His love, keep His commandments.
He tells us, “Greater love hath no man this this that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
WE don’t have to lay down our lives, but we can pray for one another and be there when they need us.
True friends are not easy to find. They are life-given to keep.
We wish a happy birthday to these lovely ladies: Mother Dove Rosier Sept. 13 and Dr. Davis on Sept. 26. The psalms tell us the days of our life are three score years and 10, and if by reason of strength they be four score years.
Skipper Temple Church will honor one of their deaconesses, Colleen Mitchel, on Saturday, Sept. 30 at 3 p.m. The service is open to all family and friends. Speaker will be Deaconess Peathre Johnson from Woodville Church of Christ Written in Heaven, pastor Elder Steve Jackson.
Let us pray for all the sick and shut-in, those in the hospital, nursing homes, those in prison, the homeless, those that have lost loved ones and all in need of help.