As I write this post, it’s a Tuesday morning. I’m writing at my favorite Starbucks. I love Tuesday’s as this coffeehouse has a little more traffic than usual this morning.
The reason for the increased customer traffic is a running club meets here on Tuesday and Friday. They’ve come here for over twenty-five years. A number of them are good acquaintances. A couple of the members attended my wife’s funeral last spring. They always ask how I am doing, what I am writing, how my book sales are doing, and share what they are reading. They ask what I’m reading as well.
This morning I asked one how loves history what he’s reading. His face lit up with joy. He shared his excitement on the latest book he is dipping into. He also commented he had found my blog, Kepler’s Book Reviews.
He said I should have told him about it.
I replied I simply post reviews of some of the books I have read and liked. I stated I write a short review on what I read and post some of them.
What’s my point?
Even the Bible tells us in Proverbs 18:24a (KJV), “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly:”
Not into the Bible? The writer/poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” The poet Rod McKuen penned, “Strangers are friends just waiting to happen.”
The post’s title is “How to Have a Friend.” The answer is to be one!
Why not add at least one new friend, even a casual one to your circle? You will both be blessed.
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