LOL!

Good Friends

Habakkuk 3:18
"Yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation."

Laughter rolls through the house like a spring shower dances on a tin roof. Loud. Boisterous. Rip-roaring belly laughs to split sides and buckle you over.

Oh, God, thank you for laughter. Thank you for the smiles and the too-too-fast talking Allison is carrying on with her friend.  Friends. Oh, God, thank you for good friends who can help us laugh through the darkest of storms.

Just when I thought the house had died, LIFE found its way here again with the love and joy of friendship. 

I leave the door to our bedroom cracked open just to hear the sounds of life--not to tell them it's late and they have to go to sleep. 

Laugh, girls, laugh.  Fill this sorrow-laden house with your teenage joy.
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Lord, thank you for good friends who bring us back from the shadow of death.